At Punderdome a pun is simply "a play on words".
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Everything is a play on words, or has double meaning.
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They say they're "taking a break," but it's a play on words.
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AstroTurf is a play on words to describe a fake "grassroots" campaign.
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MonuMental is a play on words emphasizing the mental state of monumental figures.
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The play on words moniker applies directly to what you're about to see.
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"The heart is one of my loves -- not to play on words," Gearhart said.
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My favorite sketch tonight was likely the brainchild of a simple play on words.
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What began as a joke, a silly play on words, is not funny anymore.
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It's supposed to be a play on words, but it just doesn't make sense.
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" The play on words invokes one of America's most notorious gangs: "Make America Crip Again.
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It's not even that good a play on words: May the Fourth Be With You.
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Using the same play on words, the breakfast item is called the Naked Egg Taco.
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Harlan made an anodyne play on words that said absolutely nothing negative about Barron Trump.
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It sounds more like a play on words and it isn't conceptually appropriate in my view.
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"It's a play on words," Genius user tianaelizaann7 explains in an unreviewed notation on the site.
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Etleap is a play on words for a common set of data practices: extract, transform and load.
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This play on words is really delightful — a "barker" also comes and goes through the DOG DOOR.
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Mr. Hernández decided a play on words was worth the fanfare of dressing up and applying makeup.
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We are however Australian and know how to have a laugh about a good play on words.
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Our team name, the "Heartbreakers", is usually a cute play on words relating to life & racing & their intersection.
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With this unsubtle play on words, Byrne is suggesting that her photoshoot a trailblazing offshoot of Freidan's book.
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I have two dachshunds, these little wiener dogs, and just thought it would be a fun play on words.
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The "PHA-t" play on words is rooted in the formula, which is packed with polyhydroxy acids (or PHAs).
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Her track "Butterflies" is also worth a spin, but "Space Cowboy" caught my attention because of that play on words.
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"As it turned out, our play on words became a little more exciting than we expected," Belinda Daniel told WZTV.
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So you want to dress as some sort of person, as opposed to an animal or a play on words.
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"If this has offended anyone that wasn't our intention, it was just a good play on words," Smith told WXIX.
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Yeah Pi Day is a play on words regarding math, but that doesn't mean you can't celebrate with actual sweets.
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It's also a nice play on words, since the tanks that Master Chief occasionally rides in Halo are known as Scorpions.
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I like a play on words and 'man, I feel like a woman' is obviously that — the double entendre and all.
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Guacamol — the name comes from a play on words in French: "avocado" is "avocat" in French, the same word as "lawyer"!
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Others are bad play on words on surnames, poop, sodomy, overweight, a little bit of Nazis and a lot of nudity.
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The name "Muto" is a play on words like "metamorphosis" and "multipurpose" hinting at the e-bike's unmatched ability to adapt.
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The name "Muto" is a play on words like "metamorphosis" and "multipurpose" hinting at the e-bike's unmatched ability to adapt.
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It originated as a play on words in the late 19th century, during what is considered the Meiji Era in Japan.
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It's on the long side, but I love how it tells a story unto itself and employs a play on words.
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" The club later insisted it was a play on words, "a joke said as a paradox," designed to "protect the player.
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The Twitter hashtag "NoSeanPenndejos" was meant as a play on words in Spanish at Mr. Penn's expense: "Pendejo" is a vulgar pejorative.
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Named for their daughters Poppy and Ivy, the play on words implies that you could mainline the hell out of this drink.
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Not all nuns wear habits anymore, but this was a really nice play on words: A "Creature of habit?" is a NUN.
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In an apparent Russian play-on-words, a cutlet not only means a cut of meat, but a bundle of cash, too.
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Names intended for doctors are often a play on words or technologies familiar to them or suggestive of a drug's mechanism of action.
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" The Sun headlined its post-vote edition with the play on words, "Brextinct" and that "May's deal is as dead as a Dodo.
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Easy as pie if you watch out for those question marks and know what they mean, but still a great play on words.
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They had to have a funny play on words about their hobbies, or if there was a pun in there of some sort.
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Stefani, 46, got a case of the giggles the minute Shelton's name came up and was clearly tickled by DeGeneres' play on words.
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The Xs Max is meant to be read as the "ten s" but the fitting play on words is lost on no one.
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Or at least, that was the result of an impeachment witness's play on words in a point about presidential powers and the Constitution.
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"Ab Hoga Nyay" (now there will be justice) is the Congress Party's official campaign slogan and a play on words on the NYAY scheme.
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However, Gold's Gym apparently just can't resist a play on words, or, while it's at it, a hefty dose of sexism and body-shaming.
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The showroom carried signs emblazoned with the slogan "Drive and Shop", a play on words in Arabic, using the female form of the verbs.
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Another play on words comes in an homage to everyone's favorite middle school calculator code, 8th Grade Math, by Sam Sheldon and Carolina Gallegos.
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The initiative's name is meant to be a play on words about alcohol and drug addiction, according to a rep for Action on Addiction.
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"We are not so stupid to understand it's a play on words," said the ambassador, Eduard Malayán, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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The play on words, combined with Mr. Walken's offbeat delivery, gave Bai a hit, but it also risked locking the brand into an identity.
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"We are not so stupid to understand it's a play on words," said the ambassador, Eduard Malayán, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
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When I ask Rodriguez how they were able to construct turntables, toca-discos in Spanish, he responds with a laugh and a play on words.
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Given Handler's play on words, it seems to be the latter: They know how much language matters and are choosing to do harm with theirs.
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We intended the billboard as a play on words to encourage the loving act of gift giving and are deeply saddened that it offended anyone.
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The condoms were packaged in small cardboard holders with "Utah specific euphemisms, or play on words" that refer the condom owner to the website HIVandMe.
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The slogan, which mirrors the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse, is a play on words from the Japanese kutsu, meaning shoes and kutsuu, meaning pain.
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The goal of The Boring Company (a play on words), is to build a series of underground tunnels that can transport cars and help alleviate traffic.
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The towering robot was given the name Mimus as a play on words, but also helps situate the robot as an extension of the bird family.
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When The New York Times started Motherlode in 2008, the name was a play on words that marked our entry into the world of parenting blogs.
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The title Excommunication is a play on words, if you look at it that way," he mused, "religious excommunication, as well as communicating with my ex.
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The puppet officer held up a little sign to falsely accuse her, using a play on words that combined Al Qaeda and ETA, the Basque separatist group.
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In our perusal of companies that raised seed funding in the past year, we came across a number of startups employing some sort of play-on words.
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In the other are those that a former prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has dubbed i sfascisti: a play on words combining sfasciare (to wreck) and Fascisti (Fascists).
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As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.
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We create our character, Viceroy (yes, it's a little play on words), a mature knight who doesn't dabble in magic, leaving his axe alone to destroy hollows.
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Our drummer, Bret, and I came up with the play on words with the British rockers Small Faces in a flash of inspiration one night before practice.
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Cramer, who enjoys putting acronyms to good use, is now on the prowl for a new play on words to redefine the group of big technology stocks.
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"It was a play on words, this idea of a business that deals with the philosophical matter of time," Mr. Frei told The New York Times in 2014.
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The girl in this video, posted on Youtube by Datu Boiu, absolutely lights up when she realizes she's been hit with a perfectly executed surprise play on words.
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The fish are equally adorable, each one a silly play on words; you'll catch everything from a green pickled herring to a black-and-white spotted cow koi.
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Just a marker for your DVR: It's during the rose ceremony that Kenny's play on words achieves even greater heights than English professors around the country thought possible.
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In the original Danish, Martin Zandvliet's film is called "Under Sandet," which means "Under the Sand," but American distributors, in their wisdom, opted for a play on words.
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According to Rocker, it comes down to two kinds of Faith – a play on words that indicates both the family's Christian beliefs and the name of the couple's daughter.
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At his rally that day, the president sounded nearly contrite, saying he had made mistakes in the past and had "matured" — a play on words using his last name.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer, who enjoys putting acronyms to good use, is now on the prowl for a new play on words to redefine the group of big technology stocks.
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Its Arabic name is a play on words that literally means the scope of Egypt but could also refer to a stone-setting, as though Egypt were a jewel.
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Sure, it could be a play on words because Swift is singing, "There's a lot of cool chicks out there," but then again … nothing is an accident in Swift World.
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The play on words (I love dogs, get it?) captures the director's compound of irony and earnestness, the way he takes puerile things seriously, in a mode of rigorous deadpan.
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It might not be a quirky play on words or a deconstructed dish, but it is what it is and those three components have been done with the utmost care.
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The acronym can also be seen as a play on words given it is just one letter away from the Arabic word 'daes' meaning something or someone who crushes or tramples.
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My go-to is First bROWn Ticket (the brand's play on words is a stretch, we know), a '90s brown-red that complements most skin tones and looks sexy as hell.
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In her art project dubbed MaaSci, a play on words, Njeri recreates Tatooine city -- a fictional sparsely inhabited desert planet from the movie series "Star Wars" -- while incorporating elements of Maasai culture.
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While the album included some decent grooves and amusing play-on-words track titles, it didn't do much besides allow the group to embark on a new exciting and well-received world tour.
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The company said last week it was winding down its operations in the UK. The U.S. proceeding - a so-called "Chapter 22," a play on words for a second Chapter 11 - would be separate.
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While some poked fun at the campaign for showing those who appeared to be claiming they were using the drug, others said it was a clever double play on words that got people intrigued.
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Over Bloody Marys (a nice play on words) she finds out Marian was secretly cremated by her mother, thus erasing any hope of proving that she died by medical malpractice at the hands of Adora.
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The title is a play on words from a 1997 film, "Gadjo Dilo", which means "Crazy Stranger" in Romani, the language of the 2 million Roma in the country, around a 10th of the population.
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The ad featured a play on words using "Jokke," a nickname for Joachim, and a similar-sounding Danish slang word for masturbation, urging Danes to vote for one after they had finished doing the other.
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No matter where you come from, or how you feel about things in the world today, Joel Fagliano's crossword theme is a really funny play on words, which is what we come here to enjoy.
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The tweet read "Rococo's Basilisk," a play on words that mixes the name for an 18th century baroque art style (Rococo) with the name of an internet thought experiment about artificial intelligence known as 'Roko's Basilisk.
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Moore's pride for the work and achievements of her wife is endearingly displayed via her license plate, which reads "LEZBTZN," a play on words referring to "rebbetzin," the Yiddish word for the wife of a rabbi.
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Both of the sources said SnapLion is a play on words with the common acronym for law enforcement officer LEO, with one of them adding it is a reference to the cartoon character Leo the Lion.
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The United States and some of its allies have recently been talking up their vision of the "Indo-Pacific", instead of the "Asia-Pacific", in a play on words aimed at undermining the influence of China.
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La French Tech is going to pick 40 (and later 120) top-performing startups and give them the label Next40 and French Tech 120 — a play on words with the CAC40 and SBF 120 stock indexes.
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And, to me, that's exactly what 30D was: a brilliant play on words that kept me thinking for way more time than I wanted to devote to it, but when I got it, it made me smile.
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" While the Legal Goods title openly questions the difference between "legal" and "good," it is also a play on words relating to, as Patterson says, "the anonymous indentured servants making our everyday items from inside the prison system.
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While the leaders attracted a modest gallery, thousands tracked every step with Woods, including three men in red baseball caps displaying the words "Make Tiger Great Again" — a play on words of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign slogan.
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The reputation of a country, and more importantly, the lives of the people who inhabit it, are at stake, and the play on words has backfired, turning the act of those who sport it into a play of oneself.
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The name is a combination of the Spanish words for "art" (arte) and "attack" (atacar) that creates a sort of play on words for "art attack," which describes how the group is pushing back against violence in the region.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The current show at Sprüth Magers gallery, Eau de Cologne, has a title that might seem like a play on words (that's what I initially thought), but it is actually quite straightforwardly unironic.
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But it wasn't all about tongue-in-cheek (seriously no pun intended) references when it came to Chacón because prior to her exploding on to the scene "The Wall Street Journal" took some serious notice with an interesting play on words.
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"He admitted to posting those comments and talked more about how it was a play on words and that when he was referring to shooting, he was referring more to a cellphone or a video camera," Lt. Trent Colledge said.
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The walk, which launched on Saturday, is a new program at Apple stores called "AR[T]," which is a play on words on augmented reality, a technology that uses cameras and machine learning to place digital objects in the real world.
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"Let us see what can we do to bring about a real liberation of Freedom to all our brothers and sisters," he said in a speech, referring to the name of the new phone to make a play on words.
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On his weekly podcast, Joe Budden speculated that not only was the majority of Side A a direct response to Ye and Push, but he believes even the way Drake used "good" was a play on words for G.O.O.D. Music.
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Even before the scandal, Park's opponents called her "Chicken Geun-hye", both a play on words - her family name rhymes with chicken in Korean - and a reference to what they see as her lack of intellect and stilted public speaking.
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Buzzfeed on Thursday was also leading their site with a photo of Pelosi and Trump and the headline "The DREAM team," a play on words referencing DACA and the so-called Dreamers, or undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
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Briton Alex Day has created a pun- and play-on-words-packed rap called "Avada Kebabra" — an inventive story about a friend who opens a kebab shop, which somehow squeezes in every single spell from all seven Harry Potter books.
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TNT began airing the series on Wednesday, but the Russian-language service of the BBC noted it had edited out a play on words about Putin and an expensive make of Swiss watch, Hublot, which sounds like an obscenity in Russian.
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TNT began airing the series on Wednesday, but the Russian-language service of the BBC noted it had edited out a play on words about Putin and an expensive make of Swiss watch, Hublot, which sounds like an obscenity in Russian.
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The debate over "black olives matter" is playing out on social media, with people divided into two predictable camps: those deeply offended by the reworked phrase, and those outraged by the outrage over what they consider just a restaurant's cute play on words.
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Satanarchist's name isn't just a cute play on words; the band's two members, John Edwards and Mark Nunziata, practice what they screech, railing against the government, organized religion, and other forms of institutionalized oppression between pitch-black notes and jumpy d-beats.
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Some of these groups have strict barriers to entry, while others list group rules including "no charcuterie shaming" and a request to avoid the use of "explicit" terms like "charcooterie," a play on words that has previously made some group members uncomfortable.
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" The button on the other hand, came about more as a solution to Instagram's strict limitations than a search for aesthetic connection: "I only started using buttons as a way to avoid Instagram's censorship on my nudes (and because of the play on words).
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Their act featured a puppet police officer who held up a sign falsely accusing a witch, using a play on words that combined Al Qaeda and ETA, the Basque group that has killed more than 800 people in its campaign to secure Basque independence.
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MOBILE/IMMOBILE bills itself as an exploration of our modes de vie, a play on words in the context of transportation, suggesting both our way of life and our means of living — which is to say, the tools we use to go about our days.
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Miley Cyrus is either carving her own path or struggling to find her voice — and it's not clear which on her new EP, She Is Coming (yes, that's a play on words that both alludes to the upcoming full-length album this precedes and a sex joke).
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The titles, for a start, are mostly references and puns—"Tell That Mick" is a nod to Wes Anderson's Rushmore, "Grand Theft Autumn" is a spin on Grand Theft Auto, "Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here)" is a vengeful little play on words.
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The words "Good Buy" can be looked at in this way—a play on words whose double meaning suggests something "positive" (I say this in quotes because it can either be read as positive reinforcement for an action or a sales pitch), but also references an exit when said out loud.
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" Other times, though, Robert Chandler and the group of translators he led here create a play on words that is every bit as funny as Teffi's — as when the author is speaking to her self-anointed manager, whose particular brand of Odessa-speak serves as reliable comic relief in "Memories": "I'd advertise it . . .
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This is particularly true of the tropical room's giant pots and "tofu" ceramic sculptures (which resemble large blocks of tofu, but are also a play on words criticizing the shoddy construction practices that resulted in fatalities during the Sichuan earthquake); due to their scale and pastel shades, they almost give the appearance of being Disneyland props.
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On a drizzly January afternoon, one week before showing his third collection at Dior, Jones met me in his cavernous library and sat down at the corner of an antique reading table roughly the size of four Ping-Pong tables pushed together, on which was a neatly displayed assortment of obscure titles with names like "Fallatrice" (an obtuse but naughty play on words, I assumed) along with the sole extant copy of Steve Rubell's Studio 22019 magazine and a box of Cards Against Humanity.
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