Meaning of double duty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The performance of two roles simultaneously.
2. A cryptic device or cluing error whereby a term forms part of both the definition and the wordplay.

Examples

“But if a token phenomenal feel does double duty in this way (as a token of an aspect of both the pain and our way of thinking of the pain), no extra specter of dualism arises.”

“I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language. Mess serves double duty here, as synonym and as anagram tip-off.”

“"working" here does double duty as an anagram indicator and as a main constituent of the definition.”

“Dunnart is undoubtedly audacious in suggesting that the first word of “Skip the front page of paper, heading for crossword instead?” might not be really doing double duty.”

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