Zeugma

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Here’s one for you.  I bet it is not a household word:

A zeugma is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. An example of a zeugma is, “She broke his car and his heart.”

I want to thank my friend Carol Halstead for confounding me.  Cheers

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