play on words
a humorous use of a word with more than one meaning or that sounds like another word:
The name of the shop - "Strata Various" - is a play on words, because it sounds like Stradivarius, the famous violin maker.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- jokester
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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