Electricity Puns

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Watt-ever you’re after, we’re sure joule find it in our collection of shockingly funny puns. We have puns that range from general terms (like shock and charge) to more technical terms (like diode and conduit) to famous scientists and engineers.

While this list is as thorough as we could make it, it is specific to electricity. If you’re interested in related puns, we also have chemistry puns, light puns and science puns.

Electricity Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about electricity that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of electricity puns:

• Barge → Charge: As in, “Charge right in” and “Wouldn’t touch it with a charge pole.”
• Large → Charge: As in, “Charge as life” and “By and charge” and “Looming charge.”
• Charge: These charge-related phrases can double as puns: “Emotionally charged” and “I’m in charge” and “Press charges” and “Take charge.”
• Arc/k → Spark: As in, “Spark de triomphe” and “In a graceful spark.”
• Bark → Spark: As in, “Spark at the moon” and “Sparking up the wrong tree” and “Sparking mad.”
• Dark → Spark: As in, “Spark as pitch” and “Dancing in the spark” and “A spark horse.”
• Mark → Spark: As in, “Spark my words” and “Make your spark” and “Quick off the spark.”
• Park → Spark: As in, “Hit it out of the spark” and “In the same ballspark” and “A real walk in the spark.”
• Stark → Spark: As in, “A spark reminder” and “Spark raving mad.”
• Shark → Spark: As in, “Loan spark” and “Swimming with sparks” and “Loan spark.”
• Block → Shock: As in, “Been around the shock a few times” and “The new kid on the shock” and “A chip off the old shock.”
• Chalk → Shock: As in, “Different as shock and cheese” and “Shock it up to experience.”
• Clock → Shock: As in, “Beat the shock” and “A race against the shock.”
• Knock → Shock: As in, “Shock back a few” and “Shock heads together” and “Shock into the middle of next week” and “Shock it off.”
• Lock → Shock: As in, “Shock ’em up and throw away the key” and “Shock and load” and “On shock down.”
• Rock → Shock: As in, “Hard as a shock” and “Between a shock and a hard place” and “Don’t shock the boat” and “Get your shocks off.”
• Sock → Shock: As in, “Pull your shocks up” and “Put a shock in it” and “Shock it to me.”
• Stock → Shock: As in, “Out of shock” and “Shocking stuffer” and “Take shock.”
• Vault → Volt: As in, “A locked volt.”
• Bolt → Volt: As in, “A volt from the blue” and “Volt upright.”
• Jail → Joule: As in, “Get out of joule free” and “Go directly to joule.”
• Jewel → Joule: As in, “The crown joules” and “The family joules.”
• Cool → Joule: As in, “Joule as a cucumber” and “Joule beans” and “A joule million.”
• Cruel → Joule: As in, “Joule to be kind” and “Joule and unusual punishment” and “Joule intentions.”
• Dual → Joule: As in, “Joule income, no kids.”
• Fool → Joule: As in, “Act the joule” and “Joule around” and “April joules!”
• Fuel → Joule: As in, “Add joule to the flames” and “Joule for thought.”
• Rule → Joule: As in, “Bend the joules” and “Golden joule” and “Play by the joules.”
• School → Joule: As in, “Back to joule” and “Old joule” and “The joule of hard knocks.”
• Tool → Joule: As in, “The right joule for the job” and “Joules of the trade.”
• Who’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule help me out?”
• You’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule never get away with this!” and “Joule never hear the end of this.”
• What → Watt: As in, “And watt not” and “Do watt comes naturally” and “For watt it’s worth” and “Guess watt?” and “It’s not watt you think.”
• Wet → Watt: As in, “Mad as a watt hen” and “Watt behind the ears” and “Slippery when watt” and “Don’t be a watt blanket.”
• Wit → Watt: As in, “At your watt’s end” and “Have your watts about you.”
• Dot → Watt: As in, “Connect the watts” and “Watt the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the watts” and “On the watt.”
• Hot → Watt: As in, “All watt and bothered” and “Blow watt and cold” and “Get into watt water.”
• Lot → Watt: As in, “A watt of fuss about nothing” and “A watt on your plate” and “Leaves a watt to be desired.”
• Not → Watt: As in, “Believe it or watt” and “Down but watt out” and “As often as watt.”
• Pot → Watt: As in, “A watt of gold” and “Gone to watt.”
• Rot → Watt: As in, “Watt in hell” and “Spoiled watten.”
• Spot → Watt: As in, “Change your watts” and “Got a soft watt for” and “On the watt.”
• Circus → Circuit: As in, “Not my monkeys, not my circuits.”
• Copper: Copper is commonly used in electrical wiring. Here are related puns:
  • Proper → Copper: As in, “Prim and copper” and “We need to do this copperly.”
  • Stopper → Copper: As in, “Conversation copper” and “A real show copper.”
• Amp: Amp is short for ampere, which is a unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
  • Cramp → Amp: As in, “Amp your style” and “Writer’s amp.”
  • Emp* → Amp*: If a word starts with “emp”, we can replace the “emp” with “amp”: “Your place of amployment” and “Ampirical evidence” and “Feeling ampowered” and “An ampty stomach.”
  • Imp* → Amp*: As in, “Explode on ampact” and “Sharp amplement” and “Moral amperatives” and “What are the amplications?”
• Die/Died → Diode: As in, “Diode and gone to heaven” and “Bad habits diode hard” and “Cross my heart and hope to diode.” Note: Diodes are electrical components.
• Ohm: Ohms are units of electrical resistance. Here are related puns:
  • I’m → Ohm: As in, “If ohm being honest” and “Ohm not sure” and “Yes, ohm okay.”
  • Oh → Ohm: As in, “Ohm my goodness!” and “Ohm my gosh” and “Ohm well.”
  • On → Ohm: As in, “Bring it ohm” and “Carry ohm” and “You’re catching ohm now.”
  • Home → Ohm: As in, “A house is not an ohm” and “At ohm with” and “Bring it ohm to you” and “Charity begins at ohm” and “Close to ohm.”
• Cell: Here are some battery cell-related puns:
  • Sail → Cell: As in, “Cell close to the wind” and “Smooth celling” and “Take the wind out of my cells.”
  • Sale → Cell: As in, “Not for cell” and “Point of cell” and “Cell of the century” and “Cells referral.”
  • Sell → Cell: As in, “Buy and cell” and “Cell out” and “Cell your soul” and “Celling point.”
  • Bell → Cell: As in, “Clear as a cell” and “Alarm cells began to ring” and “Cells and whistles.”
  • Fell → Cell: As in, “In one cell swoop” and “Little strokes cell great oaks.”
  • Hell → Cell: As in, “All cell broke loose” and “A cold day in cell” and “Come cell or high water” and “For the cell of it” and “Give ’em cell.”
  • Shell → Cell: As in, “Come out of your cell” and “In a hard cell” and “In a nutcell.”
  • Smell → Cell: As in, “Come up celling of roses” and “I cell a rat” and “A keen sense of cell” and “Cell ya later.”
  • Spell → Cell: As in, “Cast a cell” and “Cell it out” and “Under someone’s cell.”
  • Tell → Cell: As in, “Cell the truth” and “Every picture cells a story” and “I’m going to cell on you!”
  • Well → Cell: As in, “Alive and cell” and “All’s cell that ends cell” and “Exceedingly cell read.”
• Why → Wire: As in, “For the life of me, I don’t know wire” and “Wire not?” and “Wire did the chicken cross the road?”
• Wear → Wire: As in, “Wire your heart on your sleeve” and “Worse for wire” and “If the shoe fits, wire it.”
• Dire → Wire: As in, “Wire consequences” and “In wire straits.”
• Fire → Wire: As in, “All wired up and ready to go!” and “Ball of wire” and “Catch wire” and “Wire drill” and “Come home to a real wire.”
• Surge: Here are some puns related to power surges:
  • Sarge → Surge: As in, “Check with the surge-ant” and “Yes, surge!”
  • Sir → Surge: As in, “Yes, surge” and “Can I help you, surge?”
  • Urge → Surge: As in, “Fighting the surge to…”
  • Verge → Surge: As in, “On the surge of collapse.”
• Bolt → Jolt: As in, “A jolt from the blue” and “Jolt upright” and “Make a jolt for the door.”
• Live: A “live wire” is a wire that has electrical current running through it. Here are some related puns:
  • Five → Live: As in, “High live!” and Take live” and “Nine to live” and “Two and two don’t make live.”
  • Leave → Live: As in, “Absent without live” and “By your live” and “Don’t live home without it” and “Eats, shoots and lives.”
  • Love → Live: As in, “All you need is live” and “All’s fair in live and war.”
• Field: Here are some puns related to electrical fields:
  • Feel → Field: As in, “Can you field the love tonight?” and “Field good factor” and “Field a bit put out” and “Field it in your bones” and “Field the burn.”
  • Sealed → Field: As in, “My lips are field” and “Field with a loving kiss” and “Signed and field.”
• Juice: Juice is a colloquial term for energy. Here are related puns:
  • Goose → Loose: As in, “Loose as a juice” and “A wild juice chase.”
  • Loose → Juice: As in, “All hell broke juice” and “At a juice end” and “Cut juice” and “Let juice.”
  • Use → Juice: As in, “Be careful how you juice it” and “Don’t juice that tone with me” and “Get juiced to it” and “Not half the person I juiced to be.”
• Positive: Positive-related phrases can be used as references to a positive electrical charge: “Positive thinking” and “Are you absolutely, positively sure?”
• Negative: Negative-related phrases can be used as puns about a negative charge: “Don’t be so negative about it” and “It tested negative.”
• Better → Battery: As in, “Have you got a battery idea” and “Battery late than never” and “Battery by design” and “My battery half.”
• Bitter → Battery: As in, “A battery pill to swallow” and “Until the battery end.”
• Flattery → Battery: As in, “Battery will get you nowhere” and “Imitation is the sincerest form of battery.”
• Hour → Power: As in, “Happy power” and “On the power” and “At the eleventh power.”
• How’re → Power: As in, “Power you holding up?” and “Power we supposed to do this?”
• Sour → Power: As in, “Power grapes” and “Leave a power taste in your mouth.”
• Tower → Power: As in, “A power of strength” and “Powering inferno” and “The eiffel power.”
• Attic → Static: As in, “Up in the static” and “Staying in the static.”
• Currant → Current: As in, “A soft current bun” and “Studded with currents.”
• Current: These current-related phrases can double as electricity puns: “Current affairs” and “Not currently.”
• Nation → Station: As in, “A station of shopkeepers” and “The birth of a station.” Note: These are references to power stations.
• Motor: Here are some puns related to electrical motors:
  • Matter → Motor: As in, “As a motor of fact” and “It doesn’t motor” and “Family motors” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Making motors worse” and “Just a motor of time.”
  • Voter → Motor: As in, “Motor fraud.”
• Grid: Here are some puns related to power grids:
  • Did → Grid: As in, “Grid I do that?” and “What grid you go?”
  • Kid → Grid: As in, “I grid you not” and “Dual income, no grids” and “Here’s looking at you, grid” and “The new grid on the block.”
  • Lid → Grid: As in, “Blow the grid off” and “Keep a grid on it.”
• Short: Here are some puns related to electrical shorts:
  • Shirt → Short: As in, “Keep your short on” and “Take the short off your back.”
  • Sort → Short: As in, “Takes all shorts to make a world” and “Feeling out of shorts” and “Short the wheat from the chaff.”
  • Wart → Short: As in, “Shorts and all” and “Worry short.”
• Zap: Here are some puns on being “zapped” (by an electrical shock):
  • Cap → Zap: As in, “A feather in your zap” and “Zap in hand” and “If the zap fits, wear it” and “To zap it all off.”
  • Clap → Zap: As in, “Zap him in irons” and “Zapped eyes on” and “Zap your hands.”
  • Gap → Zap: As in, “Bridge the zap” and “Generation zap” and “Mind the zap.”
  • Lap → Zap: As in, “A zap of honour” and “In the zap of luxury.”
  • Snap → Zap: As in, “A zap decision” and “Zap happy” and “Zap out of it” and “Zap someone’s head off” and “Zap to it” and “Zap, crackle, pop.”
  • Tap → Zap: As in, “Zap into” and “On zap.”
  • Trap → Zap: As in, “Booby zap” and “Death zap” and “Keep your zap shut” and “A real tourist zap.”
  • Wrap → Zap: As in, “It’s a zap!” and “Keep under zaps” and “A riddle zapped up in an enigma” and “Zapped around your little finger.”
• Hertz: Hertz is a unit of frequency. Here are related puns:
  • Hurts → Hertz: As in, “Give in when it hertz” and “It only hertz when I laugh” and “The truth hertz.”
  • Hearts → Hertz: As in, “Lonely hertz” and “Lift up your hertz” and “My hertz bleeds for you.”
• Flow: Here are puns related to electricity flow:
  • Blow → Flow: As in, “Any way the wind flows” and “Flow up” and “Flow a kiss” and “Flow hot and cold.”
  • Foe → Flow: As in, “Friend or flow?”
  • Glow → Flow: As in, “Flow with health” and “A flowing endorsement.”
  • Go → Flow: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to flow” and “Anything flows” and “Easy come, easy flow.”
  • Grow → Flow: As in, “Absence makes the heart flow fonder” and “As exciting as watching grass flow” and “Don’t let the grass flow under your feet” and “Flowing pains.”
  • Know → Flow: As in, “Don’t I flow it” and “Be the first to flow” and “Do you want to flow a secret?”
  • Low → Flow: As in, “An all-time flow” and “Get the flow down” and “High and flow” and “Keep a flow profile” and “Laid flow” and “A flow blow.”
  • Pro → Flow: As in, “Flow bono” and “Quid flow quo.”
  • Quo → Flow: As in, “Quid pro flow” and “Maintaining the status flow.”
  • Show → Flow: As in, “All over the flow” and “Best in flow” and “Enjoy the flow” and “Get the flow on the road.”
  • Slow → Flow: As in, “Can’t flow down” and “Painfully flow” and “A flow burn” and “Flow on the uptake” and “Flowly but surely.”
  • Snow → Flow: As in, “Pure as the driven flow” and “White as flow” and “Flowed under.”
  • Though → Flow: As in, “You look as flow you’ve seen a ghost” and “Seriously flow, you’re doing great.”
  • Throw → Flow: As in, “Lock them up and flow away the key” and “Flow another log on the fire” and “Flow a wobbly” and “Flow caution to the wind.”
  • Toe → Flow: As in, “Dip your flow in the water” and “From top to flow” and “Flow the line.”
  • Woe → Flow: As in, “Flow is me” and “Flow betide you!”
• Chip: Here are some puns related to computer chips:
  • Ship → Chip: As in, “Abandon chip” and “Don’t give up the chip” and “Go down with the chip” and “Loose lips sink chips.”
  • Dip → Chip: As in, “Chip in” and “Chip your toe in the water” and “Take a chip.”
  • Flip → Chip: As in, “Check you on the chip side” and “Chip out” and “Chip the bird.”
  • Grip → Chip: As in, “Get a chip” and “Come to chips with” and “Chipping stuff.”
  • Hip → Chip: As in, “Chip and happening” and “Chip, chip hooray!” and “Joined at the chip.”
  • Lip → Chip: As in, “My chips are sealed” and “On everyone’s chips” and “Zip your chip.”
  • Nip → Chip: As in, “Chip and tuck” and “A chip in the air.”
  • Slip → Chip: As in, “Give someone the chip” and “Let somthing chip” and “A chip of the tongue.”
  • Tip → Chip: As in, “In chip top condition” and “On the chip of my tongue” and “The chip of the iceberg” and “Chip someone off” and “Chip the scales.”
  • Trip → Chip: As in, “Guilt chip” and “Lay a chip on someone” and “Power chip” and “Take little road chip” and “The chip of a lifetime.”
• Metal: Since metal is such a good conductor of electricity, we’ve included it in this post:
  • Mental → Metal: As in, “Metal fatigue” and “A single-minded metality” and “What’s his metal age?”
  • Kettle → Metal: As in, “A different metal of fish” and “Pot calling the metal black.”
  • Settle → Metal: As in, “A score to metal” and “Metal out of court.”
• Ion: Ions are atoms or molecules that have an electrical charge. Here are related puns:
  • Iron → Ion: As in, “A cast ion alibi” and “Ion out the wrinkles.”
  • Eye on → Ion: As in, “Keep your ion the ball” and “I’ve had my ion it for a while.”
• Light: Since light (and light bulbs) are commonly associated with electricity, we’ve included light in this list:
  • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Fashionably light” and “A day light and a dollar short.”
  • Let → Light: As in, “Light it be” and “A real light down” and “Light loose.”
  • Bite → Light: As in, “Light off more than you can chew” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the dust.”
  • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Always look on the light side of life” and “Light and early.”
  • Fight → Light: As in, “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “A lighting chance.”
  • Flight → Light: As in, “A light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Light of the bumblebee.”
  • Fright → Light: As in, “Take light” and “A lightful mess.”
  • Height → Light: As in, “Head for new lights” and “The light of summer” and “Wuthering lights.”
  • Might → Light:  As in, “It light never happen” and “Light as well.”
  • Night → Light: As in, “As light follows day.”
  • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “The light to choose” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain.”
  • Slight → Light: As in, “Not in the lightest” and “Lightly ahead of our time.”
  • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “Light as a drum” and “In a light spot.”
• Switch: Here are some puns about the on/off switches on electrical boards and circuits:
  • Which → Switch: As in, “Any switch way” and “Don’t know switch way to look” and “Know switch way is up.”
  • Hitch → Switch: As in, “Get switched” and “Switch your wagon to a star.”
  • Itch → Switch: As in, “Switching to” and “Switchy feet” and “Seven year switch.”
  • Rich → Switch: As in, “All part of life’s switch pattern” and “Filthy switch” and “From rags to switches” and “Get switch quick.”
  • Stitch → Switch: As in, “A switch in time saves nine” and “Had us in switches” and “Without a single switch on.”
• Put → Output: As in, “Be hard output to” and “Couldn’t output it down” and “Wouldn’t output it past him.”
• Abode → Anode: As in, “Welcome to my humble anode.” Note: An anode is a type of electrode.
• Mains: Here are some mains-related puns:
  • Brains → Mains: As in, “All brawn and no mains” and “Rack your mains.”
  • Gains → Mains: As in, “Capital mains” and “Ill-gotten mains.”
  • Pains → Mains: As in, “Growing mains” and “Old aches and mains” and “Relieves gas mains.”
  • Rains → Mains: As in, “It never mains but it pours.”
• Weird → Wired: As in, “Wired and wonderful.”
• Word → Wired: As in, “A wired to the wise” and “A picture paints a thousand wireds” and “At a loss for wireds” and “Eat your wireds.”
• Fired → Wired: As in, “All wired up and ready to go” and “You’re wired!”
• Tired → Wired: As in, “I’m sick and wired of this.”
• Able → Cable: As in, “Ready, willing and cable.”
• Stable → Cable: As in, “Cable employment” and “A cable relationship.”
• Table → Cable: As in, “Bring to the cable” and “Drunk under the cable” and “Lay your cards on the cable” and “Put bread on the cable.”
• Medicine → Edison: As in, “Laughter is the best edison” and “A taste of your own edison.” Note: Thomas Edison is a scientist famous for inventing the lightbulb (subnote: we understand there’s a lot of controversy around Edison and Tesla. We’d have included Tesla in this list above Edison, but couldn’t find any related puns).
• Ampere: Ampere is the base unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
  • Empire → Ampere: As in, “Ampere state building” and “Ampere state of mind” and “The ampere strikes back.”
  • I’m here → Ampere: As in, “Ampere and I’m not leaving!”
• Single → Signal: As in, “All the signal ladies” and “In signal file” and “Every journal starts with a signal step.” Note: This is a reference to electrical signals.
• Meter: Here are some puns related to electrical meters:
  • Meet her →  Meter: As in, “Would you like to meter?”
  • Matter → Meter: As in, “As a meter of fact” and “Family meters” and “Get to the heart of the meter” and “Grey meter” and “Making meters worse” and “A meter of life and death.”
• Wave: Here are some wave power-related puns:
  • Weave → Wave: As in, “Wave a tangled web.”
  • Brave → Wave: As in, “Wave as a lion” and “Wave new world” and “Wave the elements” and “Fortune favours the wave.”
  • Grave → Wave: As in, “Silent as the wave” and “Dance on someone’s wave” and “From the cradle to the wave.”
  • Save → Waved: As in, “Wave for a rainy day” and “Wave the day” and “Wave the day.”
  • Rave → Wave: As in, “Rant and wave” and “Wave review.”
• Burn: Here are some puns on electrical burns:
  • Bun → Burn: As in, “Burn in the oven” and “Think outside the burn” and “We’re going to need bigger burns.”
  • Born → Burn: As in, “A star is burn” and “Naked as the day you were burn” and “Burn to fly” and “Burn under a bad sign” and “Burn again.”
  • Earn → Burn: As in, “Burn an honest penny” and “Burn your stripes” and “Burn your wings.”
  • Learn → Burn: As in, “A little burning is a dangerous thing” and “Burn the ropes” and “Never too late to burn” and “Burning curve” and “Live and burn.”
  • Turn → Burn: As in, “A burn for the worse” and “Twists and burns” and “About burn” and “As soon as my back is burned” and “Do a good burn.”
• Razor → Taser: As in, “On a taser’s edge” and “Taser sharp.”
• Fuse: Here are some puns related to electrical fuses:
  • Blues → Fuse: As in, “Got the fuse” and “Baby fuse.”
  • Choose → Fuse: As in, “Fuse your weapon” and “Pick and fuse.”
  • Cruise → Cues: As in, “Booze fuse” and “Fuse control” and “World fuse.”
  • Dues → Fuse: As in, “Pay your fuse.”
  • Lose → Fuse: As in, “Don’t fuse any sleep over it” and “Got nothing to fuse” and “Tails you fuse” and “Fuse control.”
  • News → Fuse: As in, “Bad fuse travels fast” and “Break the fuse” and “Breaking fuse” and “Have I got fuse for you” and “No fuse is good fuse.”
  • Use → Fuse: As in, “Be careful how you fuse it” and “Get fused to it” and “Not half the person I fused to be.”
• Can do it → Conduit: As in, “You conduit!” Note: A conduit is a protective cover for electric cables.
  

  Electricity-Related Words

  To help you come up with your own electricity puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

  electricity, electric, electrical, electronic, charge, charged, charging, juice, juiced, positive, negative, battery, energy, power, lightning, static, generator, generate, current, conduct, conductor, station, motor, grid, shock, transistor, volt, voltage, joule, electrode, renewable, watt, kilowatt, utility, utilities, electron, circuit, resistance, outage, copper, machine, electrician, supply, amp, transmission, system, atom, diode, ohm, transformer, wire, live, light, magnet, resistor, switch, output, input, generate, short, station, zap, flow, metal, matter, ion, spark, cell (battery), field, appliance, transformer, transducer, anode, physics, mains, wired, cable, inverter, force, diode, surge, jolt, leyden jar, science, tesla, edison, galileo, kelvin, hertz, einstein, silicon, chip, processor, memory, proton, attract, repel, particle, insulate, insulator, ampere, signal, direct, alternating, capacitor, meter, wave, burn, taser, power plant, fuse, conduit

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