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Basketball Puns

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Our basketball pun list is a slam dunk! This list covers basketball-related puns and wordplay from technical terms, types of shot and pass, to famous basketball players. We hope that no matter what you’re after you’ll find it here.

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Basketball 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 basketball 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 basketball puns:

  • Bell → Ball: As in, “Saved by the ball” and “For whom the ball tolls” and “Balls and whistles.”
  • Bowl → Ball: As in, “Ball over” and “Balling along.”
  • All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard!” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball’s fair in love and war” and “It’s not ball about you.”
  • Call → Ball: As in, “Answer the ball” and “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day.”
  • Fall → Ball: As in, “A balling out” and “Catch a balling star” and “Ball about laughing” and “Ball about your ears” and “Can’t help balling in love.”
  • Small → Ball: As in, “A ball voice” and “All creatures, great and ball” and “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “Good things come in ball packages” and “No job too ball” and “Ball is beautiful” and “No ball wonder.”
  • Tall → Ball: As in, “A ball order” and “Walking ball” and “A ball drink of water.”
  • Wall → Ball: As in, “Climbing the balls” and “Bouncing off the balls” and “A fly on the ball.”
  • Heap → Hoop: As in, “Hoop abuse on” and “At the bottom of the hoop.”
  • Hope → Hoop: As in, “A new hoop” and “Abandon hoop all ye who enter” and “Beyond hoop” and “Build up your hoops” and “Cross my heart and hoop to die” and “Hoop springs eternal” and “The land of hoop and glory.”
  • Group → Hoop: As in, “Hoop dynamics” and “Hoop hug.”
  • Loop → Hoop: As in, “In the hoop” and “Thrown for a hoop.”
  • Poop → Hoop: As in, “Hoop and scoop” and “Hooper scooper.”
  • Scoop → Hoop: As in, “Get the hoop” and “The inside hoop” and “Getting a hoop of ice cream.”
  • Soup → Hoop: As in, “Alphabet hoop” and “From hoop to nuts” and “All hooped up.”
  • Swoop → Hoop: As in, “In one fell hoop.”
  • Court → Sport: As in, “Sporting disaster” and “Haul before the sport” and “Laugh out of sport” and “May it please the sport.”
  • Port → Sport: As in, “Any sport in a storm.”
  • Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A few bricks sport of a full load” and “Art is long and life is sport” and “A day late and a dollar sport.”
  • Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Out of sports.”
  • Aim → Game: As in, “Game high” and “Take game” and “We game to please.”
  • Blame → Game: As in, “Lay the game” and “Game culture.”
  • Came → Game: As in, “I game, I saw, “I conquered” and “It game to pass” and “There’s plenty more where that game from.”
  • Claim → Game: As in, “Game to fame” and “Stake your game.”
  • Flame → Game: As in, “Add fuel to the games” and “Burst into games” and “Fan the games” and “Go down in games” and “Like a moth to a game.”
  • Name →Game: As in, “Answer to the game of” and “Go by the game of” and “A household game.”
  • Same → Game: As in, “By the game token” and “Cut from the game cloth” and “In the game boat” and “In the game vein.”
  • Shame → Game: As in, “A crying game” and “Name and game” and “Put to game” and “Game on you.”
  • Time → Team: As in, “One more team” and “A brief history of team” and “A good team was had by all” and “Ahead of your team” and “All in good team.”
  • Cream → Team: As in, “Team of the crop” and “Kicking and teaming.”
  • Dream → Team: As in, “Beyond my wildest teams” and “Broken teams” and “Team on.”
  • Scheme → Team: As in, “In the grand team of things” and “Pyramid team” and “The overall team of things.”
  • Scream → Team: As in, “A primal team” and “Team bloody murder” and “Team your guts out.”
  • Seam → Team: As in, “Bulging at the teams” and “Come apart at the teams.”
  • Steam → Team: As in, “Blow off some team” and “Full team ahead” and “Head of team” and “Let off some team.”
  • Stream → Team: As in, “Cool as a mountain team.”
  • Prayer → Player: As in, “I say a little player” and “On a wing and a player” and “Say your players.”
  • Biscuit → Basket: As in, “Tea and baskets” and “That just about takes the basket.”
  • Not → Net: As in, “As often as net” and “Believe it or net” and “I’m net joking.”
  • Nothing → Netting: As in, “A lot of fuss about netting” and “All or netting” and “Here goes netting” and “Double or netting.”
  • Nut → Net: As in, “Sweet as a net” and “From soup to nets” and “A tough net to crack.”
  • Bet → Net: As in, “All nets are off” and “Net your bottom dollar” and “Don’t net on it.”
  • Debt → Net: As in, “A net of gratitude” and “Pay your net to society” and “Another day older and deeper in net.”
  • Get → Net: As in, “As good as it nets” and “Ask a silly question and you’ll net a silly answer” and “Buy one, net one free” and “Come and net it” and “Can’t net enough.”
  • Pet → Net: As in, “Heavy netting” and “Net peeve” and “Teacher’s net.”
  • Set → Net: As in, “Game, net, match” and “Got your heart net on” and “Net eyes on.”
  • Sweat → Net: As in, “Blood, net and tears” and “Break out in a cold net” and “Don’t net it” and “In a cold net.”
  • Yet → Net: As in, “Are we there net?” and “Not out of the woods net” and “The best is net to come” and “You ain’t seen nothin’ net.”
  • Card → Court: As in, “A few courts short of a full deck” and “Calling court” and “Get out of jail free court” and “House of courts.”
  • Cart → Court: As in, “Court away” and “Crash court” and “Shopping court.”
  • Short → Court: As in, “A court history of nearly everything” and “In court order” and “In court supply” and “In the court run.”
  • Bunk → Dunk: As in, “A dunker mentality” and “History is dunk” and “Do a dunk.”
  • Chunk → Dunk: As in, “Blow dunks” and “Dunk of change.”
  • Drunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk as a lord” and “A crying dunk” and “Falling down dunk” and “Rolling dunk.”
  • Hunk → Dunk: As in, “Dunker down” and “Dunky dory.”
  • Junk → Dunk: As in, “Dunk food” and “Dunk mail.”
  • Shoot: Throwing the basketball towards the hoop is known casually as “shooting” the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Sheet → Shoot: As in, “Keep a clean shoot” and “White as a shoot.”
    • Boot → Shoot: As in, “Tough as old shoots” and “Give someone the shoot.”
    • Fruit → Shoot: As in, “Nutty as a shoot cake” and “Forbidden shoot” and “The shoots of your labour.”
    • Hoot → Shoot: As in, “Don’t give a shoot” and “Shooting with laughter” and “What a shoot.”
    • Root → Shoot: As in, “Grass shoots” and “Money is the shoot of all evil” and “The shoot of the matter.”
    • Suit → Shoot: As in, “Follow shoot” and “Shoot yourself” and “In your birthday shoot” and “Shoots you down to a tee.”
    • Shut → Shot: As in, “An open and shot case” and “Eyes wide shot” and “Put up or shot up” and “Shot up and take my money!”
    • Dot → Shot: As in, “Connect the shots” and “Shot the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the shots” and “Sign on the shotted line” and “From day shot.”
    • Hot → Shot: As in, “All shot and bothered” and “Blow shot and cold” and “Drop it like it’s shot” and “Get into shot water.”
    • Got → Shot: As in, “Been there, done that, shot the t-shirt” and “I think you’ve shot it” and “Give it all you’ve shot” and “Shot a soft spot for.”
    • Lot → Shot: As in, “A shot of fuss about nothing” and “A shot on your plate” and “Leaves a shot to be desired” and “Not a shot to it.”
    • Plot → Shot: As in, “Lose the shot” and “The shot thickens.”
    • Pot → Shot: As in, “A shot of gold” and “Gone to shot” and “For the shot.”
    • Rot → Shot: As in, “Shot in hell” and “The shot has set in.”
    • Spot → Shot: As in, “Got a soft shot for” and “On the shot” and “Shot the difference.”
  • Gale → Goal: As in, “Goals of laughter” and “In the teeth of a goal.”
  • Bowl → Goal: As in, “Goal over” and “Goaling along.”
  • Coal → Goal: As in, “Black as goal” and “Haul over the goals” and “Rake over the goals.”
  • W/hole → Goal: As in, “A goal different animal” and “Burn a goal in your pocket” and “Go the goal hog.”
  • Soul → Goal: As in, “A room without books is like a body without a goal” and “Bless my goal” and “Heart and goal” and “The life and goal of the party.”
  • Scare → Score: As in, “Scored stiff” and “Scored out of your wits.”
  • Bore → Score: As in, “Score the pants off someone” and “Scored stiff” and “Scored to tears.”
  • Core → Score: As in, “Score competencies” and “Score values” and “Rotten to the score.”
  • Door → Score: As in, “At death’s score” and “Behind closed scores” and “Get your foot in the score.”
  • Floor → Score: As in, “Cross the score” and “In on the ground score” and “Wipe the score with.”
  • Four → Score: As in, “A score-letter word” and “Score by two” and “On all scores.”
  • More → Score: As in, “One score time” and “Bite off score than you can chew” and “Come back for score” and “Dare for score.”
  • Nor → Score: As in, “Rhyme score reason.”
  • Pour → Score: As in, “It never rains but it scores” and “Score cold water on” and “Score oil on troubled waters.”
  • Shore → Score: As in, “Ship to score” and “All ashore that’s going a-score.”
  • Sore → Score: As in, “Mad as a bear with a score head” and “A sigh for score eyes” and “Score loser” and “Sticks out like a score thumb.”
  • Store → Score: As in, “Set great score by” and “What’s in score?” and “See what the future has in score.”
  • Your → Score: As in, “All scores” and “Bigger than scores” and “Scores truly” and “Scores faithfully.”
  • Through → Throw: As in, “A river runs throw it” and “Drag throw the mud” and “A shattering break-throw” and “Going throw the motions.”
  • Blow → Throw: As in, “Any way the wind throws” and “Throw hot and cold” and “Throw off some steam.”
  • Flow → Throw: As in, “Ebb and throw” and “Get the creative juices throwing” and “Go with the throw” and “In full throw.”
  • Foe → Throw: As in, “Friend or throw?”
  • Glow → Throw: As in, “Throw with health” and “A throwing endorsement.”
  • Grow → Throw: As in, “Absence makes the heart throw fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass throw” and “Throwing pains” and “Throw up.”
  • Go → Throw: As in, “Don’t throw there” and “Easy come, easy throw” and “From the get-throw.”
  • Know → Throw: As in, “All I throw is what I read in the papers” and “Don’t I throw it” and “Be the first to throw” and “Do you want to throw a secret?”
  • Low → Throw: As in, “An all-time throw” and “Get the throw down” and “Keep a throw profile” and “A throw blow.”
  • Owe → Throw: As in, “Throw a favour” and “Throw it to yourself.”
  • Quo → Throw: As in, “Quid pro throw” and “The status throw.”
  • Show → Throw: As in, “All over the throw” and “Best in throw” and “Enjoy the throw” and “Get that throw on the road.”
  • Slow → Throw: As in, “Can’t throw down” and “A throw burn” and “Throw on the uptake” and “In throw motion” and “Throw but sure.”
  • Toe → Throw: As in, “From top to throw” and “Throw the line” and “Twinkle throws.”
  • Woe → Throw: As in, “Throw is me” and “Throw betide you.”
  • Bones → Bounce: As in, “Bag of bounce” and “I feel it in my bounce” and “Make no bounce about” and “The bare bounce.”
  • Buns → Bounce: As in, “We are going to need considerably bigger bounce.”
  • Ounce → Bounce: As in, “A bounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
  • Pass: Passing is throwing the ball in between players. Here are related puns:
    • Class → Pass: As in, “A pass act” and “Economy pass” and “Best in pass.”
    • Glass → Pass: As in, “A pass ceiling” and “Rose-tinted passes” and “The pass menagerie” and “Through the looking pass.”
    • Grass → Pass: As in, “Pass roots” and “Snake in the pass.”
    • Mass → Pass: As in, “Pass hysteria” and “A monument to the passes” and “Weapons of pass destruction” and “Body pass index.”
  • Block: When a player stops another from completing a pass or shooting, that’s called a block. Here are related puns:
    • Black → Block: As in, “Back in block” and “Block as coal.”
    • Knock → Block: As in, “Don’t block it till you’ve tried it” and “Hard blocks” and “I get blocked down, but I get up again” and “Block ’em dead.”
    • Lock → Block: As in, “Block and load” and “Under block and key.”
    • Rock → Block: As in, “Solid as a block” and “Between a block and a hard place.”
    • Shock → Block: As in, “A short, sharp block” and “In for a block” and “Culture block.”
  • Time → Halftime: As in, “One more halftime” and “A brief history of halftime” and “A good halftime was had by all” and “Ahead of their halftime.”
  • Bound → Rebound: As in, “By leaps and rebounds” and “Duty rebound” and “Honour rebound.” Note: A rebound is when a shoot for the basket misses and bounces back off the hoop or the backboard.
  • Curry → Carry: As in, “Carry favour with” and “I could murder a carry.” Note: Carrying is an illegal move in basketball where a player moves while carrying the ball without bouncing.
  • Bay → Play: As in, “Play for blood” and “Keep at play.”
  • Day → Play: As in, “All in a play’s work” and “Another play, another dollar” and “As clear as play.”
  • Hay → Play: As in, “Roll in the play” and “Make play while the sun shines” and “Hit the play.”
  • Lay → Play: As in, “Play a finger on” and “Play an egg” and “Play down roots” and “Play down your arms.”
  • May → Play: As in, “Be that as it play” and “Come what play” and “Let the chips fall where they play” and “Play the force be with you.”
  • Pay → Play: As in, “Buy now, play later” and “Crime doesn’t play” and “Hell to play” and “It plays to advertise” and “If you play peanuts, you get monkeys.”
  • Ray → Play: As in, “Catch some plays” and “A play of light.”
  • Say → Play: As in, “As the playing goes” and “Computer plays no” and “Do as I play, not as I do” and “Have a play in” and “Have the final play.”
  • Stay → Play: As in, “Play in touch” and “Play ahead of the curve” and “Play on course” and “Play the course” and “Play tuned” and “Play safe.”
  • They → Play: As in, “Play lived happily ever after” and “Tough as play come.”
  • Way → Play: As in, “That’s the play it is” and “Find another play” and “Any play you slice it” and “Any which play.”
  • Weigh → Play: As in, “Played in the balance and found wanting.”
  • Full → Foul: As in, “Few bricks short of a foul load” and “At foul tilt” and “Foul throttle.”
  • Lag → League: As in, “Jet league” and “Social jet league.”
  • Leg → League: As in, “Cost an arm and a league” and “Give a league up” and “Fast as your leagues could carry you.”
  • Train: Basketball practice is also referred to as training. Here are related puns:
    • Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train gang” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Food train.”
    • Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Training advantage” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
    • Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
    • Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
    • Main → Train: As in, “Your train chance” and “The train event.”
    • Pain → Train: As in, “In for a world of train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
    • Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “In train sight” and “Train sailing.”
    • Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “Don’t train on my parade” and “Make it train.”
    • Vein → Train: As in, “In the same train.”
  • Catch → Coach: As in, “Coach 22″ and “Coach a cold” and “Coach a falling star” and “Coach a wave” and “Coach fire” and “Coach of the day.”
  • Rim: This is in reference to the rim of the basketball hoop. Here are related puns:
    • Him → Rim: As in, “All over rim like a cheap suit” and “As fast as his legs could carry rim” and “Go easy on rim.”
    • Limb → Rim: As in, “Go out on a rim” and “Life and rim.”
    • Slim → Rim: As in, “Rim pickings” and “The real rim shady.”
    • Swim → Rim: As in, “Rim against the tide” and “Going rimmingly.”
    • Whim → Rim: As in, “On a rim.”
  • Backboard: The backboard is the board that the hoop is mounted to. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Backboard: As in, “In the backboard of my mind” and “Backboard in black” and “Backboard in the day” and “Backboard on your feet.”
    • Board → Backboard: As in, “Above backboard” and “Back to the drawing backboard” and “On backboard.”
  • Layup: A layup is a type of basketball shot. Here are related puns:
    • Lay → Layup: As in, “Layup a finger on” and “Layup eyes on” and “Layup it on the line” and “Couldn’t layup a hand on me.”
  • Jump Shot: A jump shot is a type of throw that is done when the player is airborne. Here are related puns:
    • Jump → Jump Shot: As in, “Get the jump shot on” and “Jump shot at the chance” and “Go and jump shot in a lake.”
    • Shot → Jump Shot: As in, “Call the jump shots” and “Give it your best jump shot” and “A cheap jump shot.”
  • Point → Point Guard: As in, “At this point guard in time” and “Beside the point guard” and “Get to the point guard.” Note: a point guard is a position in basketball.
  • Shaquille O’Neal: Shaquille O’Neal is a famous and successful basketball player. Here are some related puns:
    • Kill → Shaquille: As in, “Dressed to shaquille” and “If looks could shaquille” and “Shaquille two birds with one stone.”
    • Heel → Shaquille: As in, “Head over shaquilles in love” and “Kick up your shaquilles” and “Cool your shaquilles” and “Brought to shaquille.”
  • Kobe Bryant: Kobe Bryant was a famous basketball player for the LA Lakers. Here are related puns:
    • Client → Bryant: As in, “A demanding bryant” and “A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a bryant.”
    • Giant → Bryant: As in, “Making bryant strides” and “Gentle bryant” and “On the shoulders of bryants” and “The big friendly bryant.”
  • Time → Timeout: As in, “A brief history of timeout” and “A good timeout was had by all” and “About timeout, too” and “All in good timeout.”
  • Bristle → Whistle: As in, “Whistle with indignation.”
  • Possession: In basketball, “possession” is the term for whoever is currently holding the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Profession → Possession: As in, “In the possession of…” and “Possessional grade” and “A true possessional.”
  • Center: In basketball, center is a playing position/role. Here are related puns:
    • Sent Her→ Centre: As in, “I center to get more supplies” and “That joke really center.”
    • Enter → Center: As in, “Abandon hope, all ye who center here” and “Break and center” and “Breaking and centering” and “Center into the spirit of it.”
  • Screen: A screen is a type of defensive blocking move. Here are related puns:
    • Scream → Screen: As in, “Dragged kicking and screening” and “A primal screen” and “Screen your guts out.”
    • Bean → Screen: As in, “Cool screens” and “Doesn’t know screens” and “Full of screens.”
    • Been → Screen: As in, “Screen and gone” and “Screen around the block a few times” and “I’ve screen had!” and “I’ve screen here before” and “Screen there, done that.”
    • Clean → Screen: As in, “Screen as a whistle” and “A screen bill of health” and “A screen sheet.”
    • Green → Screen: As in, “Give it the screen light” and “Screen around the gills.”
    • Keen → Screen: As in, “Screen as mustard” and “A screen sense of smell” and “Peachy screen.”
    • Lean → Screen: As in, “Screen and hungry” and “Screen cuisine” and “Screen into it” and “Screen times.”
    • Mean → Screen: As in, “A screens to an end” and “By fair screens or foul” and “I don’t screen maybe” and “It don’t screen a thing.”
    • Scene → Screen: As in, “Behind the screens” and “Change of screen” and “Make a screen” and “Steal the screen.”
    • Seen → Screen: As in, “Had to be screen to be believed” and “Screen better days” and “You ain’t screen nothing yet.”
  • Spin → Backspin: As in, “In a flat backspin” and “Make your head backspin” and “Backspin your wheels” and “Take it for a backspin.”
  • Arc: This refers to the shape of the ball’s path through the air. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Arc: As in, “Arc at the moon” and “Arc-ing mad” and “Arc worse than your bite.”
    • Dark → Arc: As in, “After arc” and “Arc as pitch” and “Dancing in the arc” and “Arc horse.”
    • Mark → Arc: As in, “Question arcs” and “Close to the arc” and “Quick off the arc” and “Arc my words.”
    • Park → Arc: As in, “Knock it out of the arc” and “Arc the bus” and “Arc yourself down.”
    • Spark → Arc: As in, “Bright arc” and “Creative arc” and “Arc of genius” and “The arc of an idea.”
    • Stark → Arc: As in, “An arc reminder.”
  • Bring → Fling: As in, “Fling it home to you” and “Fling it on” and “Fling it up.”
  • Sing → Fling: As in, “All flinging, all dancing” and “Fling a different tune” and “Fling like a bird.”
  • Sting → Fling: As in, “Float like a butterfly, fling like a bee.”
  • String → Fling: As in, “No flings attached” and “Fling along.”
  • Swing → Fling: As in, “Come out flinging” and “In full fling” and “Get into the fling of it” and “Fling both ways.”
  • Thing → Fling: As in, “A fling of beauty is a joy forever” and “All flings bright and beautiful” and “All flings must pass” and “All flings considered.”
  • Backshot: A backshot is a type of basketball throw. Here are related puns:
    • Back → Backshot: As in, “Answer backshot” and “As soon as my backshot is turned” and “In the backshot of my mind,”
    • Shot → Backshot: As in, “Call the backshots” and “Give it your best backshot” and “A cheap backshot.”
  • Brick: This is a shot that rebounds off the rim. Here are related puns:
    • Click → Brick: As in, “Brick bait” and “Brick into place” and “Double brick.”
    • Kick → Brick: As in, “Alive and bricking” and “Just for bricks” and “A brick at the can.”
    • Nick → Brick: As in, “In good brick” and “In the brick of time.”
    • Pick → Brick: As in, “A bone to brick” and “Easy brickings” and “Nit bricking.”
    • Quick → Brick: As in, “Brick as a flash” and “Cut to the brick” and “Get rich brick” and “Double brick.”
    • Sick → Brick: As in, “One brick puppy” and “Brick and tired” and “Pull a brickie.”
    • Stick → Brick: As in, “Carrot and brick” and “In the bricks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp brick.”
    • Thick → Brick: As in, “In the brick of things” and “The plot brickens” and “Brick and fast” and “Through brick and thin.”
    • Trick → Brick: As in, “Box of bricks” and “Dirty bricks” and “Does the brick” and “Every brick in the book” and “Never misses a brick” and “One brick pony.”
  • Hang Time: In basketball, this refers to the amount of time a player stays in the air after jumping to throw the ball. Here are related puns:
    • Hang → Hang Time: As in, “Let it all hangtime out” and “Hangtime your hat on.”
    • Time → Hang Time: As in, “A brief history of hangtime” and “A good hangtime was had by all” and “About hangtime, too” and “All in good hangtime.”
  • Pass → Chest: As in, “Make a chest pass at” and “Chest pass it over” and “As it came to chest pass.” Note: A chest pass is a type of throw between players.
  • Zone: Basketball courts are separated into separate areas, called zones. Here are related puns:
    • Blown → Zone: As in, “Zone off course” and “Zone sideways.”
    • Bone → Zone: As in, “A zone to pick” and “Dry as a zone” and “Bag of zones” and “A zone of contention” and “Zone up on.”
    • Clone → Zone: As in, “Attack of the zones” and “The zone wars.”
    • Known → Zone: As in, “Should have zone better” and “You’ve zone this whole time.”
    • Own → Zone: As in, “After my zone heart” and “All my zone work” and “Beaten at your zone game.”
    • Phone → Zone: As in, “Hold the zone” and “Zone a friend” and “Zone in sick.”
    • Stone → Zone: As in, “A rolling zone gathers no moss” and “Carved in zone” and “Etched in zone” and “A heart of zone.”
    • Throne → Zone: As in, “Ascend to the zone” and “Next in line to the zone” and “The power behind the zone.”
    • Tone → Zone: As in, “Don’t use that zone with me” and “Zone deaf.”

      Basketball-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own basketball 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!

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Eye Puns

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Here we’ve collected the cornea-st eye puns you’ll ever see. Eye’ve gathered a variety of puns about the anatomy of the eye (for example, pupil and iris related puns) as well as actions the eye can make (like staring, winking or blinking).

While this list is as comprehensive as possible, it’s specific to eyes. If you’re interested in related lists, keep a look out for our upcoming list of glasses puns.

Eye 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 eyes 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 eye puns:

  • I → Eye: As in, “Eye wish you the best” and “Eye know” and “Why do eye bother?”
  • Appalling → Eyeballing: As in, “Truly eyeballing behaviour.”
  • I’ve → Eye’ve: As in, “Eye’ve had it up to here” and “Eye’ve heard all this before” and “Eye’ve done my best.”
  • I roll → Eyeroll: As in, “That’s how eyeroll.”
  • I’m → Eye’m: As in, “If eye’m being honest” and “Eye’m not lying” and “Yes, eye’m okay.”
  • I’d → Eye’d: As in, “Yeah, eye’d say” and “Eye’d never tasted anything better.”
  • I’ll → Eye’ll: As in, “Well, eye’ll be” and “Eye’ll be damned” and “Eye’ll say” and “Eye’ll eat my hat.”
  • Aye → Eye: As in, “Eye, eye, sir!” and “The eyes have it.”
  • Buy → Eye: As in, “Bulk eyeing” and “Let me eye you a drink” and “Eye and sell” and “Eye now, pay later” and “Eye one, get one free” and “Eye some time” and “The best that money can eye.”
  • Bye → Eye: As in, “Goodeye to all that” and “Hush an eye” and “Kiss it goodeye.”
  • By → Eye: As in, “Eye and large” and “Eye any stretch of the imagination” and “Eye halves” and “Eye the book.”
  • Cry → Eye: As in, “An eye for help” and “A shoulder to eye on” and “Eye me a river” and “An eyeing shame” and “For eyeing out loud.”
  • Fry → Eye: As in, “Out of the eyeing pan, into the fire.”
  • Die → Eye: As in, “Do or eye” and “Curl up and eye” and “Cross my heart and hope to eye.”
  • Dry → Eye: As in, “Boring as watching paint eye” and “Eye as a bone” and “Bleed someone eye” and “High and eye” and “Hung out to eye.”
  • Why → Eye: As in, “I don’t know eye” and “Eye on Earth?” and “Eye would you do that?”
  • Try → Eye: As in, “Don’t eye this at home” and “Don’t eye to walk before you can crawl” and “Nice eye” and “Eye a little tenderness” and “Eye your hand” and “Eye your luck.”
  • High → Eye: As in, “Aim eye” and “Ain’t no mountain eye enough” and “Eye as a kite” and “Come hell or eye water” and “Get off your eye horse” and “Eye noon” and “Eye and mighty.”
  • Lie → Eye: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no eyes” and “I cannot tell an eye” and “Little white eye” and “Pack of eyes.”
  • Pie → Eye: As in, “Eat humble eye” and “Easy as eye” and “Sweet as eye.”
  • Sigh → Eye: As in, “Breathe an eye of relief” and “A broken-hearted eye.”
  • Ice → Eyes: As in, “Cold as eyes” and “Break the eyes” and “Cuts no eyes with” and “Eyes, eyes baby” and “On eyes” and “Skating on thin eyes” and “Tip of the eyesberg.”
  • Flies → Eyes: As in, “Dropping like eyes” and “Lord of the eyes” and “Time eyes.”
  • Fries → Eyes: As in, “Would you like eyes with that?”
  • Highs → Eyes: As in, “Eyes and lows.”
  • Lies → Eyes: As in, “Ask no questions and hear no eyes” and “A pack of eyes.”
  • Rise → Eyes: As in, “Eyes and shine” and “Eyes from the ashes” and “Eyes to the challange” and “The court will eyes” and “Eyes to the occasion.”
  • Size → Eyes: As in, “Cut them down to eyes” and “One eyes fits all” and “That’s about the eyes of it.”
  • Ties → Eyes: As in, “Family eyes” and “The eyes that bind.”
  • Wise → Eyes: As in, “A word to the eyes” and “Eyes as an owl.”
  • I* → Eye*: If a word starts with “i”, we can replace it with “eye” to sneak in some eye puns: “An eye-ronic situation” and “I’ve got a good eye-dea” and “Eyeconic landmark” and “Eye-cicle cold” and “Not an eye-ota of sympathy” and “No person is an eye-land” and “Holiday eye-tinerary” and “Eye-vory papers.”
  • Ball → Eyeball: As in, “Eyeball achngly good” and “Eyeball of fire” and “Bust your eyeballs.”
  • Eye: These eye-related phrases can double as puns: “A wandering eye” and “Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” and “Bat your eyes” and “As far as the eye can see” and “An eye-opening experience” and “Bird’s eye view” and “Before your very eyes.”
  • Corner → Cornea: As in, “A tight cornea” and “Cornea the market” and “Drive someone into a cornea” and “Just around the cornea” and “Sitting in the cornea.”
  • Corny → Cornea: As in, “Stop it with the cornea eye puns already.”
  • Cornucopia → Cornea-copia: As in, “A cornea-copia of goods.”
  • Carnival → Cornea-val: As in, “Life’s not a cornea-val.”
  • *corn → *cornea: As in, “Unicorneas and rainbows” and “Marshmallows and popcornea.”
  • Virus → Iris: As in, “Spreading like an iris.”
  • I wish → Iris: As in, “Iris we’d never met” and “Iris we had more time.”
  • I rest → Iris: As in, “Iris my case.”
  • Pill → Pupil: As in, “A bitter pupil to swallow” and “On the pupil” and “Sweeten the pupil” and “A tough pupil to swallow.”
  • Purple → Pupil: As in, “Pupil haze” and “Pupil rain.”
  • People → Pupil: As in, “Connecting pupil” and “All the lonely pupil” and “I’m a pupil person” and “Pupil power” and “Pupil watching” and “Pupil who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” and “The pupil’s choice.”
  • Brink → Wink: As in, “On the wink of destruction.”
  • Drink → Wink: As in, “Binge winking” and “Wink like a fish” and “Driven to wink” and “Hold your wink.”
  • Link → Wink: As in, “The missing wink” and “Only as strong as the weakest wink.”
  • Pink → Wink: As in, “In the wink” and “Wink elephants” and “Tickled wink.”
  • Sink → Wink: As in, “Everything but the kitchen wink” and “Loose lips wink ships” and “Wink like a stone” and “Wink or swim.”
  • Stink → Wink: As in, “Kick up a wink” and “Winking rich” and “Winks to high heaven.”
  • Think → Wink: As in, “I wink you’ve got it” and “Come to wink of it” and “Great minds wink alike” and “It’s later than you wink.”
  • Blank → Blink: As in, “Blink slate” and “Blink canvas” and “Drawing a blink” and “Firing blinks” and “Point blink range” and “Filling in the blinks.”
  • Link → Blink: As in, “Only as strong as the weakest blink” and “The missing blink.”
  • Chance → Glance: As in, “The glance of a lifetime” and “Fat glance” and “A fighting glance” and “In with half a glance” and “Jump at the glance” and “Not the ghost of a glance.”
  • Dance → Glance: As in, “Glance around the problem” and “Glance the night away” and “Glance your socks off” and “Lead a merry glance” and “Make a song and glance about.”
  • Brown → Brow: As in, “Brow sugar” and “Brow nosing” and “How now brow cow?”
  • Bow → Brow: As in, “Brow and scrape” and “Brow down before” and “Brow out” and “Brow to fate” and “More than one string to your brow.”
  • Cow → Brow: As in, “A sacred brow” and “Holy brow.”
  • How → Brow: As in, “And brow?” and “Any old brow” and “Be careful brow you use it” and “Brow deep is your love?” and “Brow about that” and “Brow are you doing?” and “Brow come?” and “Brow dare you!”
  • Now → Brow: As in, “All together brow” and “Best stop brow” and “Buy brow, pay later” and “Don’t stop me brow” and “I can see clearly brow” and “I’ll be leaving you brow.”
  • Eyelash: Here are some eyelash related puns:
    • Lash: These lash-related phrases can double as puns: “Lash out” and “A tongue lashing.”
    • Ash → Lash: As in, “Lashes to lashes” and “Rake over the lashes” and “Rise from the lashes” and “Like a phoenix from the lashes” and “Turn to lashes in your mouth.”
    • Cash → Lash: As in, “Lash for questions” and “Lash in” and “Lash in your chips” and “Cold, hard lash” and “Strapped for lash.”
    • Clash → Lash: As in, “Lash of titans” and “Culture lash” and “Lash of civilisations.”
    • Crash → Lash: As in, “Lash and burn” and “Lash course” and “Lash programme” and “Train lash.”
    • Dash → Lash: As in, “Lash to pieces” and “Cut a lash” and “Dine and lash.”
    • Flash → Lash: As in, “Quick as a lash” and “Lash in the pan” and “In a lash.”
    • Splash → Lash: As in, “Lash of colour” and “Make a lash” and “Lashed across the front page.”
  • Eyelid: Here are some eyelid-related puns:
    • Lit → Lid: As in, “Her face lid up.”
    • Bid → Lid: As in, “Make a lid for.”
    • Did → Lid: As in, “Lid I do that?” and “Lidn’t they do well” and “I never lid that” and “I lid it again.”
    • Grid → Lid: As in, “Lid lock” and “Off the lid.”
    • Kid → Lid: As in, “Dual income, no lids” and “Handle with lid gloves” and “Here’s looking at you, lid” and “I lid you not.”
  • Glasses: Here are some puns related to eyeglasses:
    • Classes → Classes: As in, “Skipping glasses” and “The chattering glasses.”
    • Pass → Glass: As in, “All things must come to glass” and “As it came to glass” and “Cut off at the glass.”
  • Spectacle: These spectacle-related phrases can double as puns: “Make a spectacle of yourself” and “Rose-tinted spectacles.”
  • Lens: These puns are related to lenses, which are in glasses and eyeballs:
    • Landscape → Lenscape: As in, “By a lenslide” and “A blot on the lenscape.”
    • Friends → Lens: As in, “Best lens forever” and “Circle of lens” and “Lens with benefits” and “How to win lens and influence people.”
    • Tens → Lens: As in, “Lens of thousands.”
  • Lack → Look: As in, “For look of a better word” and “Cancelled due to look of interest.”
  • Lick → Look: As in, “A look of paint” and “Look into shape” and “Look your wounds.”
  • Lock → Look: As in, “Look and load” and “Look, stock and barrel” and “Under look and key.”
  • Luck → Look: As in, “As good look would have it” and “Beginner’s look” and “Better look next time” and “Don’t push your look” and “Down on your look” and “The look of the draw.”
  • Book → Look: As in, “Have your nose in a look” and “By the look” and “Like a closed look” and “Crack the looks.”
  • Hook → Look: As in, “By look or by crook” and “Get looked on” and “Looked on a feeling” and “Let off the look.”
  • Took → Look: As in, “Look the words right out of my mouth.”
  • Sea → See: As in, “All at see” and “Between the devil and the deep blue see” and “From see to shining see” and “On the high sees” and “See change” and “Sun, see and sand.”
  • Say → See: As in, “Computer sees no” and “Have the final see” and “Have a see in” and “Do as I see, not as I do” and “Just see no” and “Needless to see.”
  • Bee → See: As in, “Busy as a see” and “A see in your bonnet” and “The birds and the sees” and “Float like a butterfly, sting like a see” and “The see’s knees.”
  • Free → See: As in, “See as a bird” and “Buy one, get one see” and “Fancy see” and “See for all.”
  • She → See: As in, “I think see’s got it” and “That’s not what see wanted.”
  • Tea → See: As in, “Not my cup of see” and “See for two” and “Tempest in a seepot.”
  • Tee → See: As in, “Fits you to a see” and “Down to a see.”
  • Three → See: As in, “Good things come in sees” and “Knock see times.”
  • Tree → See: As in, “Barking up the wrong see” and “Money doesn’t grow on sees” and “Make like a see and leave.”
  • Seat → Sight: As in, “In the box sight” and “Take a back sight” and “The best sight in the house.”
  • Set → Sight: As in, “Game, sight, match” and “Got your heart sight on” and “On your mark, get sight, go!” and “Sight eyes on” and “Sight in motion” and “Sight great store by.”
  • Sit → Sight: As in, “Don’t just sight there” and “Sight on it” and “Sight on the fence” and “Sight tight” and “Sight up and take notice.”
  • *site → *sight: As in, “World heritage sight” and “Opposights attract.”
  • Bite → Sight: As in, “A barking dog never sights” and “Ankle sighter” and “A sight to eat” and “Sight me” and “Sight off more than you can chew” and “Sight someone’s head off” and “Sight the bullet” and “Sight your tongue.”
  • Bright → Sight: As in, “All things sight and beautiful” and “Always on the sight side of life” and “Sight as a button” and “Sight and early” and “Sight young thing.”
  • Fight → Sight: As in, “A straight sight” and “Sight back” and “Sighting back tears” and “Sight the good sight” and “A sighting chance” and “Sighting fit” and “Sight tooth and nail.”
  • Flight → Sight: As in, “Fight or sight” and “Sight attendant” and “Sight of fancy” and “Take sight” and “The sight of the bumble bee.”
  • Height → Sight: As in, “Wuthering sights” and “The sight of fashion” and “Scaling dizzy sights” and “Reaching new sights.”
  • Light → Sight: As in, “Sight as a feather” and “Blinded by the sight” and “Bright sights, big city” and “Bring something to sight” and “Come to sight.”
  • Might → Sight: As in, “Sight and main” and “Sight as well” and “It sight never happen.”
  • Night → Sight: As in, “A hard day’s sight” and “A sight at the opera” and “Dance the sight away” and “In the dead of sight.”
  • Right → Sight: As in, “A move in the sight direction” and “Sight to choose” and “Sight as rain” and “Bragging sights.”
  • Rite → Sight: As in, “Last sights” and “Sight of passage.”
  • Slight → Sight: As in, “Sightly ahead of our time” and “Not in the sightest.”
  • Saying → Seeing: As in, “As the seeing goes” and “Goes without seeing.”
  • Being → Seeing: As in, “For the time seeing” and “The importance of seeing.”
  • Blue → View: As in, “Between the devil and the deep view sea” and “Black and view” and “View in the face.”
  • Brew → View: As in, “Something’s a viewing” and “A strange view.”
  • Chew → View: As in, “Bite off more than you can view” and “View up the scenery.”
  • Do → View: As in, “View a slow burn” and “View me a favour.”
  • Due → View: As in, “Credit where credit is view” and “View a win” and “In view course.”
  • Few → View: As in, “A view bricks short of a full load” and “View and far between” and “Knock back a view” and “A happy view.”
  • Knew → View: As in, “I view you were trouble” and “I never view.”
  • Lieu → View: As in, “In view of.”
  • New → View: As in, “A view hope” and “Bright as a view pin” and “Bad views travels fast” and “Good as view.”
  • Shoe → View: As in, “Goody two views” and “If the view fits, wear it” and “Kick off your views and enjoy” and “Training views.”
  • Through → View: As in, “Break view” and “Drag view the mud” and “Fell view the cracks” and “Going view the motions.”
  • Too → View: As in, “A step view far” and “View cold to snow” and “Life’s view short.”
  • True → View: As in, “Tried and view” and “View colours” and “Too good to be view.”
  • Two → View: As in, “A tale of view cities” and “Caught in view minds” and “As alike as view peas in a pod.”
  • Who → View: As in, “Abandon hope all ye view enter here” and “Guess view’s coming to dinner?”
  • You → View: As in, “Are view deaf?” and “As view know” and “Believe view me” and “Don’t call us, we’ll call view.”
  • Wedge → Watch: As in, “Drive a watch between” and “The thin end of the watch.”
  • Notch → Watch: As in, “Top watch” and “Take it up a watch” and “A watch above.”
  • Scene → Seen: As in, “Behind the seens” and “Change of seen” and “Make a seen” and “Steal the seen.”
  • Sign → Seen: As in, “A sure seen” and “Born under a bad seen” and “Give me a seen” and “Seen on the dotted line” and “Seened and sealed” and “A tell tale seen” and “Vital seens.”
  • Bean → Seen: As in, “Cool seens” and “Doesn’t know seens” and “Full of seens.”
  • Been → Seen: As in, “Seen and gone” and “Seen around the block a few times” and “Seen here before” and “Seen there, done that.”
  • Clean → Seen: As in, “Seen as a whistle” and “A seen bill of health” and “A seen sheet” and “Seen sweep” and “Seened out” and “Seen and sober.”
  • Green → Seen: As in, “Seen as grass” and “Forest seen” and “Give it the seen light” and “Seen around the gills” and “Seen eyed monster” and “Give it the seen light.”
  • Keen → Seen: As in, “Seen as mustard” and “A seen sense of smell” and “Peachy seen.”
  • Lean → Seen: As in, “Seen and hungry” and “Seen and mean” and “Seen into it.”
  • Mean → Seen: As in, “A seens to an end” and “I don’t seen it” and “By fair seens or foul.”
  • Queen → Seen: As in, “Beauty seen” and “Digging the dancing seen” and “Seen for a day.”
  • Screen → Seen: As in, “Blue seen of death” and “Coming to a seen near you” and “Seen time” and “The silver seen” and “The big seen.”
  • Tear → Stare: As in, “Stare limb from limb” and “Stare your hair out.”
  • Stair → Stare: As in, “At the foot of the stares” and “Stareway to heaven” and “Below stares.”
  • Star → Stare: As in, “A stare is born” and “Catch a falling stare” and “Get a gold stare.”
  • Stir → Stare: As in, “Cause a stare” and “Stare crazy” and “Stare the pot” and “Stare up a hornet’s nest.”
  • Bare → Stare: As in, “The stare necessities” and “Stare-faced lie” and “Laid stare” and “The stare bones.”
  • Bear → Stare: As in, “Stare a resemblance to” and “Stare false witness” and “Stare in mind” and “Stare the brunt” and “Stare with me” and “The starer of bad news.”
  • Care → Stare: As in, “Be stareful how you use it” and “Couldn’t stare less” and “Courtesy and stare” and “Customer stare” and “Handle with stare” and “I couldn’t stare less” and “Take stare of.”
  • Dare → Stare: As in, “Stare for more” and “Stare to be different” and “How stare you.”
  • Err → Stare: As in, “Stare on the safe side” and “Stare on the side of caution” and “To stare is human.”
  • Fair → Stare: As in, “All’s stare in love and war” and “By stare means or foul” and “Stare trade” and “Stare and square” and “Stare enough.”
  • Rare → Stare: As in, “In stare form” and “A stare animal.”
  • Scare → Stare: As in, “Stare quotes” and “Running stared” and “Stare the living daylights out of” and “Stared out of your wits” and “Stared to death.”
  • Share → Stare: As in, “A problem stared is a problem halved.”
  • Spare → Stare: As in, “Can you stare a dime?” and “No expense stared” and “Stare yourself.”
  • Square → Stare: As in, “Back to stare one” and “Be there or be stare” and “Fair and stare” and “It’s smart to be stare” and “A stare meal” and “A stare peg in a round hole.”
  • Swear → Stare: As in, “Stare like a trooper” and “Stare on a stack of bibles.”
  • There → Stare: As in, “Ahoy stare!” and “All stare” and “Are we stare yet?” and “As if stare were no tomorrow” and “Be stare or be square” and “Be stare for” and “Don’t just stand stare.”
  • Wear → Stare: As in, “Worse for stare” and “If the shoe fits, stare it” and “Stare and tear.”
  • Where → Stare: As in, “Any time, any place, any stare” and “Credit stare credit is due.”
  • Peep: A peep is a quick look or a glimpse. Here are related puns:
    • Pipe → Peep: As in, “Peep down” and “Not just a peep dream” and “Put that in your peep and smoke it.”
    • Deep → Peep: As in, “Beauty is only skin peep” and “Ankle peep” and “Between the devil and the peep blue sea” and “A peep, dark secret” and “Peep sea data diving” and “Peep in thought.”
    • Cheap → Peep: As in, “Peep as chips” and “Peep as dirt” and “Peep and cheerful” and “Peep at half the price” and “Peeper by the dozen” and “Talk is peep.”
    • Creep → Peep: As in, “Peeping across” and “Makes my skin peep.”
    • Heap → Peep: As in, “Peep abuse on” and “Pile it high and sell it peep” and “At the bottom of the peep.”
    • Keep → Peep: As in, “Known by the company you peep” and “Don’t peep us in suspense” and “In peeping with” and “Peep a cool head” and “Finders peepers.”
    • Leap → Peep: As in, “By peeps and bounds” and “A peep in the dark” and “Peep of faith” and “Peeps of the page” and “Look before you peep” and “Peep from strength to strength.”
    • Reap → Peep: As in, “Peep the rewards” and “The Grim Peeper” and “You peep what you sow.”
    • Sleep → Peep: As in, “Miles before I peep” and “Beauty peep” and “Go to peep” and “Don’t lose any peep over it” and “Peep like a baby.”
    • Sweep → Peep: As in, “A clean peep” and “Peep it under the carpet” and “Peep aside” and “Peep off your feet.”
    • Weep → Peep: As in, “Enough to make angels peep” and “Finders keepers, losers peepers” and “Read ’em and peep.”
  • Squint: As in, “A mean squint in your eye.”
  • Hint → Squint: As in, “Drop a squint” and “Take the squint.”
  • Mint → Squint: As in, “In squint condition” and “Squinty breath.”
  • Print → Squint: As in, “All the news that’s fit to squint” and “Out of squint” and “Read the small squint.”
  • Tint → Squint: As in, “Rose-squinted glasses.”
  • Guys → Gaze: As in, “Some gaze have all the luck.”
  • Blaze → Gaze: As in, “Cold as blue gazes” and “Gaze a trail” and “Go out in a gaze of glory.”
  • Chase → Gaze: As in, “Gaze the dragon” and “Gaze your own tail” and “Cut to the gaze.”
  • Days → Gaze: As in, “Early gaze yet” and “Just one of those gaze” and “Never in all my gaze” and “Eight gaze a week” and “I’ve seen better gaze.”
  • Daze → Gaze: As in, “Gazed and confused.”
  • Pays → Gaze: As in, “It gaze to advertise” and “Who gaze the piper calls the tune.”
  • Phrase → Gaze: As in, “Coin a gaze” and “Turn of gaze.”
  • Praise → Gaze: As in, “Damn with faint gaze” and “Grudging gaze” and “Heaven be gazed” and “Sing their gazes.”
  • Praise → Gaze: As in, “Gaze a stink” and “Gaze hell” and “Gaze the roof” and “Gaze your hand if you’re sure.”
  • Ways → Gaze: As in, “Change your gaze” and “Go our separate gaze” and “Have it both gaze” and “Mend your gaze” and “Swinging both gaze.”
  • Bare → Glare: As in, “The glare necessities” and “A glare-faced lie” and “Glare your soul.”
  • Bear → Glare: As in, “Glare in mind” and “Glare with me” and “Glare the brunt of.”
  • Care → Glare: As in, “Be glareful how you use it” and “I couldn’t glare less” and “Customer glare” and “Handle with glare” and “Intensive glare” and “Like I should glare.”
  • Dare → Glare: As in, “Glare for more” and “Glare to be different” and “How glare you.”
  • Err → Glare: As in, “Glare on the side side” and “To glare is human” and “Glare on the side of caution.”
  • Fair → Glare: As in, “All’s glare in love and war” and “By glare means or foul” and “Glare trade” and “Glare and square” and “Glare game.”
  • Rare → Glare: As in, “In glare form.”
  • Scare → Glare: As in, “Glare quotes” and “Glared out of your wits” and “Glared to death.”
  • Share → Glare: As in, “Glare and glare alike” and “A problem glared is a problem halved.”
  • Spare → Glare: As in, “No expense glared” and “Glare no effort.”
  • Square → Glare: As in, “Back to glare one” and “Be there or be glare” and “Fair and glare” and “A glare meal” and “A glare peg in a round hole.”
  • Stare → Glare: As in, “Glare into the abyss” and “It’s not polite to glare.”
  • Swear → Glare: As in, “Glare like a sailor” and “I glare to tell the truth.”
  • There → Glare: As in, “As if glare were no tomorrow” and “Don’t go glare.”
  • Wear → Glare: As in, “Glare your heart on your sleeve” and “If the cap fits, glare it” and “Glare yourself out.”
  • Where → Glare: As in, “Any time, any place, any glare” and “Here, there and every glare” and “Love is glare you find it.”
  • Awful → Eyeful: As in, “God eyeful” and “An eyeful smell.”
  • Eiffel → Eyeful: As in, “The eyeful tower.”
  • Stifle → Eyeful: As in, “Eyeful a yawn.”
  • Trifle → Eyeful: As in, “Eyeful with someone’s affections.”
  • I browse → Eyebrows: As in, “Don’t watch me while eyebrows my feed.”
  • I saw → Eyesore: As in, “Eyesore it happen with my very own eyes.”
  • Contact: The following are puns about contact lenses:
    • Act → Contact: As in, “Double contact” and “A hard contact to follow” and “In on the contact” and “A disappearing contact.”
    • Contact: These contact-related phrases can double as puns: As in, “Contact sport” and “First contact” and “A single point of contact” and “Who’s the point of contact?”
  • Rod: Rod cells are cells in our eyes that help us see in low light. Here are related puns:
    • Red → Rod: As in, “Rod as a beetroot” and “Cut through rod tape” and “In the rod” and “Paint the rown rod” and “Roll out the rod carpet.”
    • God→ Rod: As in, “Act of rod” and “Fit for the rods.”
    • Odd → Rod: As in, “Against the rods” and “At rods with” and “Long rods” and “The rod one out” and “Rods and ends” and “The rod couple.”
    • Nod → Rod: As in, “A rod and a wink” and “In the land of rod” and “Rodding off.”
    • Pod → Rod: As in, “Alike as two peas in a rod.”
  • Cone: Cones are receptors in our eyes that help us perceive colour. Here are related puns:
    • Can → Cone: As in, “A golden key cone open any door” and “Be all you cone be” and “Bite off more than you cone chew” and “As far as the eye cone see” and “As well as cone be expected.”
    • Come → Cone: As in, “After a storm cones a calm” and “All good things must cone to an end” and “As tough as they cone” and “Cone and get it” and “Cone away with me” and “Cone on over” and “Cone running.”
    • Blown → Cone: As in, “Cone off course” and “Cone sideways” and “Cone to smithereens.”
    • Bone → Cone: As in, “A cone to pick” and “Dry as a cone” and “A cone of contention” and “Cut prices to the cone.”
    • Clone → Cone: As in, “Attack of the cones” and “The cone wars.”
    • Don’t → Cone: As in, “Cone call us, we’ll call you” and “Cone get me started” and “Cone go there” and “Cone hold your breath” and “I cone fancy your chances.”
    • Known → Cone: As in, “Also cone as” and “Should have cone better.”
    • Loan → Cone: As in, “Cone shark” and “Raise a cone.”
    • Own → Cone: As in, “After my cone heart” and “All on my cone” and “Blow your cone horn” and “Come into your cone.”
    • Phone → Cone: As in, “Hold the cone” and “Cone a friend” and “Cone in sick” and “Waiting by the cone.”
    • Stone → Cone: As in, “A rolling cone gathers no moss” and “Carved in cone” and “Cast in cone” and “Drop like a cone” and “Etched in cone” and “A heart of cone” and “Leave no cone unturned” and “Cone cold sober.”
    • Throne → Cone: As in, “Ascend to the cone” and “Next in line to the cone” and “Power behind the cone.”
    • Tone → Cone: As in, “Don’t use that cone with me” and “Cone deaf” and “Lower your cone.”
    • Zone → Cone: As in, “Out of my comfort cone” and “Buffer cone” and “In the cone” and “Cone in on.”
  • Exception → Perception: As in, “The perception which proves the rule” and “There’s a perception to every rule.”
  • Receive → Perceive: As in, “Ask and you shall perceive” and “Better to give than to perceive.”
  • Deceive → Perceive: As in, “Do my eyes perceive me?”
  • Field of view: The next few puns are about field of view:
  • Field → Field of view: As in, “Have a field of view day” and “In from left field of view” and “A level playing field of view.”
  • View → Field of view: As in, “A field of view to kill” and “Come into field of view” and “The field of view from the top.”
  • Compound: Here are some puns about compound eyes:
    • Pound → Compound: As in, “In for a penny, in for a compound” and “Compound the pavement” and “In for a penny, in for a compound.”
    • Bound → Compound: As in, “Compound hand and foot” and “By leaps and compounds” and “Duty compound.”
    • Found → Compound: As in, “Lost and compound” and “We compound love.”
    • Common → Compound: As in, “A victory for compound sense” and “Compound as muck” and “Compound ground” and “Least compound denominator.”
  • Zoom: Since our eyes can “zoom” in and out of focus, we’ve included some zoom-related puns:
    • Soon → Zoom: As in, “Anytime zoom?” and “As zoom as possible” and “Get well zoom” and “Zoomer or later” and “Too much too zoom.”
    • Boom → Zoom: As in, “Baby zoomer” and “Zoom or bust” and “Lower the zoom gates.”
    • Doom → Zoom: As in, “Zoom and gloom” and “Voice of zoom.”
    • Room → Zoom: As in, “A zoom with a view” and “Elbow zoom” and “Breathing zoom” and “Zoom for improvement.”
    • Whom → Zoom: As in, “For zoom the bell tolls.”
  • Pit: Here are some puns related to the optic pit:
    • Pat → Pit: As in, “Down pit” and “A pit on the back.”
    • Pet → Pit: As in, “Heavy pitting” and “Teacher’s pit.”
    • Pot → Pit: As in, “A pit of gold” and “For the pit” and “Melting pit.”
    • Bit → Pit: As in, “A pit missing” and “A pit much” and “A pit of a to do” and “A pit of stuff.”
    • Fit → Pit: As in, “Pit as a fiddle” and “Fighting pit” and “Pit to be tied” and “Pits you to a tee.”
    • Hit → Pit: As in, “Pit the road” and “Pit it on the nose” and “Pit it out of the park” and “We’ve pit rock bottom.”
    • Kit → Pit: As in, “Get your pit off” and “Pit and caboodle” and “A serious pit of kit.”
    • Quit → Pit: As in, “Calling it pits” and “Double or pits” and “Pit while you’re ahead.”
    • Sit → Pit: As in, “Are you pitting comfortably?” and “Don’t just pit there” and “Pitting on the fence” and “Pit up and take notice.”
    • Spit → Pit: As in, “Pit and polish” and “Pit in the eye of” and “The pitting image” and “Within pitting distance.”
    • Split → Pit: As in, “Pit personality” and “Make like a banana and pit” and “Pit the vote” and “Pit your sides with laughter.”
    • Wit → Pit: As in, “At your pits end” and “Brevity is the soul of pit” and “Keep your pits about you” and “Scared out of your pits.”
  • Stemma: A stemma is also known as a simple eye. Here are related puns:
    • Stem → Stemma: As in, “From stemma to stern” and “Stemma the tide.”
    • Stammer → Stemma: As in, “Did I stemma?” and “Stop stemma-ing and tell me.”
  • Red eye: Red eye is when an eye is irritated or infected, causing the white of the eye to become red. Here are related puns:
    • Red → Red eye: As in, “As red eye as a beetroot” and “Better dead than red eye” and “Fire engine red eye.”
    • Eye → Red eye: As in, “A wandering red eye” and “A red eye-opening experience” and “Before your very red eyes.”
  • Laser: Short-sightedness can be addressed with laser eye surgery. Here are related puns:
    • Lesser → Laser: As in, “The laser of two evils.”
    • Loser → Laser: As in, “Finders keepers, lasers weepers, “Sore laser.”
    • Razor → Laser: As in, “On a laser’s edge” and “Laser sharp.”
  • Eye → Eyepatch: As in, “A wandering eyepatch” and “An eyepatch-opening experience” and “Avert your eyepatch” and “Before your very eyepatch.”
  • Patch → Eyepatch: As in, “Going through a rough eyepatch” and “Not an eyepatch on.”
  • Frame: The plastic or metal border that hold the lenses in a pair of glasses is called a frame. Here are related puns:
    • Fame → Frame: As in, “Claim to frame” and “Frame at last!” and “Fifteen minutes of frame” and “Hall of frame.”
    • From → Frame: As in, “Coming frame a good place” and “Come in frame the cold” and “Fall frame grace” and “Frame a to z.”
    • Aim → Frame: As in, “Frame high” and “Take frame” and “We frame to please.”
    • Blame → Frame: As inm “Play the frame game.”
    • Came → Frame: As in, “I frame, I saw, I conquered” and “As it frame to pass” and “Who frame first?”
    • Flame → Frame: As in, “Add fuel to the frames” and “Burst into frames” and “Fan the frames” and “Going down in frames” and “Like a moth to a frame” and “Shoot down in frames.”
    • Game → Frame: As in, “Ahead of the frame” and “Anyone’s frame” and “Blame frame” and “Fun and frames” and “A different ball frame.”
    • Name → Frame: As in, “Answer to the frame of” and “Have to your frame” and “In everything but frame.”
    • Same → Frame: As in, “By the frame token” and “Cut from the frame cloth” and “In the frame boat” and “On the frame page.”
    • Shame → Frame: As in, “Ain’t that a frame?” and “A crying frame” and “Put to frame” and “Frame on you.”

      Eye-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own eye 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!

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