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In American theater parlance, the term gag is used frequently to differentiate funny lines in a movie script or stage comedy from mere jokes that are exchanged indiscriminately in everyday life.
' To shift fields: art movements, in particular, often identify themselves through the addition of a syllable to a word in common parlance.
Take the verb cut, which in common ranch parlance has two meanings, the first as stated above being `castrate.
They are broadly of two kinds: those in which the wrong word is accentuated and those in which the pause is wrongly positioned (or perhaps, in technical parlance, examples of faulty tonicity and faulty tonality, respectively).
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.