zeugma

Meaning

Noun

• “We ate coffee and cake”
• 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.
• Syllepsis.

Related

Broader meaning words

• brachylogy

Origin

• Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα ("yoking; a bond, a band"), from ζεύγνυμι, from ζεῦγος.