# Double meaning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 9, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144 "2017-08-09T01:23:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/141 "2017-10-10T23:16:27Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Chop chop
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> paragon drug

High high?

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/142 "2017-10-11T00:21:35Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> angle angle

Works quite nicely, but not what I was thinking of. Or shall I say, it’s not the answer he’d give at Norte Dame.

Paragon drug = ecstasy ecstasy?

New one: What Trump will do when he gets burned.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/143 "2017-10-11T12:34:28Z")

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> [@Thin\_Ice](#):
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> No, I used it as a problem or snag. I’ve never heard of Cas9-Assisted Targeting of CHromosome either.

I meant for the “DNA concern” part.

> [@Oly](#):
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> Works quite nicely, but not what I was thinking of. Or shall I say, it’s not the answer he’d give at Norte Dame.

er uh… hunchback hunchback?

> [@Oly](#):
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> New one: What Trump will do when he gets burned.

flame flame

What Trump does when he imitates birds in social media

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/144 "2017-10-11T13:08:45Z")

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tweet tweet

To paraphrase my last one: a female hero’s drug

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/145 "2017-10-11T15:40:45Z")

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heroine heroine

Council that decides how non-perishable foods should be stored

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**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/146 "2017-10-11T15:54:14Z")

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> [@Oly](#):
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> New one: What Trump will do when he gets burned.

I bet this one was FIRE FIRE

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> heroine heroine
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> Council that decides how non-perishable foods should be stored

CABINET CABINET

* * *

Lumber journal

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**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/147 "2017-10-11T16:19:24Z")

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DNA concern was jtur’s post. I had no answer for it but after he got pissed at me he posted his answer: issue issue. (Post 135)

Lumber journal is log log, I think.  
Barney’s debris

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/148 "2017-10-11T17:26:43Z")

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> [@Thin\_Ice](#):
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> DNA concern was jtur’s post. I had no answer for it but after he got pissed at me he posted his answer: issue issue. (Post 135)

/pushes brain back in place - OK, it was your response that made me think it was yours. :smack:

> [@Thin\_Ice](#):
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> Barney’s debris

rubble rubble

control a recurring virus

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/149 "2017-10-12T00:11:35Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> er uh… hunchback hunchback?

You need to back off…

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> flame flame

Fore fire, as uptrend.

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> What Trump does when he imitates birds in social media

Tweet tweet.

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/150 "2017-10-12T00:20:29Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> heroine heroine

But the drug is e-less.  
Ne’er-do-well leaf-gatherer

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**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/151 "2017-10-12T00:30:17Z")

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Posted by Oly:

Bend a notion - How about hook hook (didn’t see this one answered already)

Ne’er-do-well leaf-gatherer - rake rake

A new one: Sell an outbuilding.

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**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/152 "2017-10-12T03:54:03Z")

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shed shed  
design a manipulator

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/153 "2017-10-12T12:47:01Z")

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> [@boson](#):
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> design a manipulator

Scheme scheme(r)?

For bend a notion, new clue: Hunker an inkling, Quasimodo-style

New one: Invent a style.

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**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/154 "2017-10-12T14:19:20Z")

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Bend a notion - hunch hunch?

Invent a style - fashion fashion?  
New one: Detective’s catch

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/155 "2017-10-13T00:33:36Z")

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> [@Thin\_Ice](#):
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> Bend a notion - hunch hunch?
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> Invent a style - fashion fashion?

To each of your responses, have half of this solution: Game played in many a church hall and campfire song dog.  
Detective’s catch: Dick’s dick? 😃

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**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/156 "2017-10-13T01:26:32Z")

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I started to write that I had no idea what any of that means until I realized it was bingo bingo. I guess both my guesses are right.  
Alas, Dick’s dick is not what I had in mind. It is a specific detective.

Here’s another: A flip flop

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**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/157 "2017-10-13T05:24:27Z")

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> [@Thin\_Ice](#):
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> It is a specific detective.

Not Dick Tracy?

Surely you can’t be going aaallll the way back to _Barney Miller_ and referencing Abe Vigoda’s character, Fish fish.

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/158 "2017-10-13T05:30:29Z")

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Originally Posted by boson View Post  
design a manipulator  
I had in mind engineer engineer.

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**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/159 "2017-10-13T12:09:57Z")

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LOL I did go all the way back to BM. Fish fish it is.

Dang boson, don’t give away your answers so soon. Some of them take a bit of ponderin’.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-meaning/793144/160 "2017-10-15T23:12:58Z")

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> [@Oly](#):
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> To each of your responses, have half of this solution: Game played in many a church hall and campfire song dog.

I think this is the last active one, so  
bingo bingo

Eat muffler

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