"edutain" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Jane De Gay, Lizbeth Goodman, Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women: Theory and Practice, page 89",
          "text": "Voices whose work and whose expression of her work continues to inform and (in a phrase borrowed from Black performance poetry of the period) 'edutain'.",
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          "ref": "2005, Farrah Gray, Fran Harris., Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out, page 163",
          "text": "Let Me \"Edutain You...",
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          "text": "Edutain Me / The \"risk\" of Deep Springs is largely up to the students' shaping.",
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        "(transitive) To educate in an entertaining manner."
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