Usually means: Double meaning, often sexually suggestive.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word double entendre:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. double entendre: Merriam-Webster
  2. double entendre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-entendre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double entendre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double entendre: Vocabulary.com
  6. double-entendre: Wordnik
  7. double entendre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double-entendre, double entendre: Wiktionary
  9. double-entendre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. double entendre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. double entendre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. double-entendre, double entendre: Dictionary.com
  13. double-entendre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Double-entendre, Double entendre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Double-entendre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. double-entendre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. double entendre: Rhymezone
  18. Double-entendre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. double-entendre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Double Entendre: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. double-entendre, double entendre: FreeDictionary.org
  22. double entendre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. double-entendre, double entendre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. double entendre: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  25. double entendre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double-entendre, double entendre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double entendre: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (double entendre)

noun:  A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.

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