joke
noun
a short story that is funny at the end. The last line of the joke is called the punchline
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Jokes
pun
noun
a humorous use of a word that has two meanings, or of words with the same sound but different meanings. For example, in the sentence ‘The violinist spent the night in a vile inn’, vile inn (=poor hotel) sounds like violin.
innuendo
noun
the use of statements with a second possible meaning, usually referring to sex and intended as a joke, or one of these statements
a play on words
a clever or funny use of a word that has two different meanings
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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