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zeugma

zeug·ma [ zgmə ] (plural zeug·mas)


noun 
Definition:
 
figure of speech: a figure of speech in which an adjective or verb is used with two nouns but is appropriate to only one of them or has a different sense with each, as in "During the race he broke the record and his leg"

[Late 16th century. Via Latin< Greek, "joining"]
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