triple-entendre
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The melon slice, cup, and handle of the pitcher comprise a triple-entendre on the pictorial resemblance between three very different kinds of volume."
- "Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park."
- "A triple-entendre, if you will; 'purloined', as in out in the open and a way to change the subject title without losing the thread. The third part of the entendre was that anything is new if perspective can be shifted."
- "At the same time Komunyakaa keeps the poem together, as bebop players keep their ensembles together, through momentum, through shared-yet-violated expectation (melodic shapes in bebop, line shapes here), and through the emotional unity the triple-entendres on music, sex, and clothes maintain."