zeug·ma 
(zgmə)
(zgmə)n.
1. Syllepsis.
2. A construction in which one word or phrase is understood to fill a parallel syntactic role in two or more clauses or phrases, as with the verb was in She was upstairs, and her husband downstairs.
[Latin, from Greek, a joining, bond; see yeug- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]