doubles entendres

A form of double entendre — A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of double entendre

    In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77
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