Usually means: Play on words, humorous effect.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word pun:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pun: Merriam-Webster
  3. pun, pun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pun: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pun: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pun, pun: Wordnik
  8. pun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pun, pun: Wiktionary
  10. pun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pun: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pun: Dictionary.com
  14. pun (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pun (surname), Pun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pun: Rhymezone
  20. pun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pun: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. pun: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pun: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PUN: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. pun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUN: Acronym Finder
  2. PUN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pun, pun(poon): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See puning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
verb:  (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
noun:  A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
noun:  (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”) [Senses referring to baked goods.]

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