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1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
2. (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
3. (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.