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noun
A situation in which confusion arises due to homophones and similar misunderstandings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From "Who's on First?", a comic routine from 1930s vaudeville made famous by Abbott and Costello, in which two people discussing a baseball team become confused by names such as "Who" and "What".
