innuendo
A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.
At dinner, a dish of stewed eels made Mr. Higgs a little pensive, and he remarked, "that the fair sex slipped through your fingers just like eels." This innuendo was, however, all that disturbed the enjoyment of the day, whose hilarity, as the newspapers say of a public dinner, was prolonged to a late hour.
A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
(logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
(law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
(law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.
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