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Old 10-02-2008, 01:33 PM   #25
Juniper
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Zeugma: A construction in which a single word, especially a verb or an adjective, is applied to two or more nouns when its sense is appropriate to only one of them or to both in different ways, as in He took my advice and my wallet.

Nifty word!
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