Usually means: Clever manipulation of language, meanings.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word wordplay:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. wordplay: Merriam-Webster
  2. wordplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wordplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wordplay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wordplay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wordplay, wordplay: Wordnik
  7. wordplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wordplay: Wiktionary
  9. wordplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wordplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wordplay: Dictionary.com
  12. Wordplay (British game show), Wordplay (The Twilight Zone), Wordplay (UK game show), Wordplay (album), Wordplay (disambiguation), Wordplay (film), Wordplay (game show), Wordplay (musician), Wordplay (song), Wordplay (website), Wordplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. wordplay: Rhymezone
  14. wordplay: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wordplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wordplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wordplay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wordplay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
noun:  A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.

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