Zeugma (Greek for "yoking") — a term from rhetoric — is the figure in which one word (usually a verb) governs several objects. ???

A figure of speech in which one verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings. For example, “I left my heart—and my suitcase—in San Francisco.” Zeugma occ [..]

1580s, "a single word (usually a verb or adjective) made to refer to two or more nouns in a sentence" (but properly applying to only one of them), from Greek zeugma, "a zeugma; that whi [..]

Artfully using a single verb to refer to two different objects in an ungrammatical but striking way, or artfully using an adjective to refer to two separate nouns, even though the adjective would logi [..]

Where a word is used to link two words or phrases, this is zeugma.The term is also used where the link between the words is unusual or mixed, also know as syllepsis. He arrived in a taxi and a hurry. [..]

two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them. *Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. *Longa tibi exsilia et vastum maris aequor arandum. Vergil, Aeneid

Any of several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. Thus examples of zeugmatic usage would include one subject with two (or more) verbs, a verb with tow (or more) direct objects, two (or more) subjects with one verb, and so forth. The [..]

Figure of speech in which a verb or adjective is applied to two nouns, but where one of the applications is inappropriate e.g. 'with weeping eyes and hearts'.

(n) use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one

two words linked to another, which only applies to one of them; also, a syllepsis. See also: syllepsis.

(rhetoric) The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one. (rhetoric) Syllepsis. * '''1963''' July, Fred Somm [..]

Say it with us, Shmoopers, ZOOG-muh. This one's a bit tricky, so we'll lead with some examples:He was alternately cudgeling his brains and his donkey. He carried a strobe light and the respo [..]

Zeugma is a literary journal published in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. First published in February 2006 by Meghan Beresford and Tomasz Mrozewski, Zeugma has grown to publish 400 copi [..]

A zeugma is a figure of speech. Zeugma may also refer to: Zeugma, Commagene, an ancient settlement in Commagene (eastern Anatolia) Zeugma, Dacia, an ancient settlement in Dacia, mentioned by Ptolemy [..]