Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clever, witty remark. synonym: joke.
- intransitive verb To make quips or a quip.
- intransitive verb To say (something) as a quip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smart sarcastic turn; a sharp or cutting jest; a severe retort; a gibe.
- To use quips or sarcasms; gibe; scoff.
- To utter quips or sarcasms on; taunt; treat with a sarcastic retort; sneer at.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
- noun A short humorous or witty comment or observation, usually spontaneously formed in response to a prior comment.
- intransitive verb To scoff; to use taunts.
- transitive verb To taunt; to treat with quips.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
smart ,sarcastic turn orjest ; ataunt ; a severeretort orcomeback ; agibe . - verb intransitive To make a quip.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a witty saying
- verb make jokes or quips
- noun witty remark
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In my reading, the Santayana quip is among the "requisite caveats" that Isaacson says Murphy "provides."
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Take health care reform, the issue that Obama through Gibbs cited when he made his one term quip, and has cited repeatedly in the past as the thing that he'd rise or fall on.
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Reading the posts on the economy and listening to the news reminds me of a quip from a century ago:
No longer riding on the merry-go-round (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Giant Step - The trick to understanding the meaning of Stiglers quip is to have what is technically called a sense of humour.
Milton Friedman: The Man Who Laughs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“This quip is not dishonest: though I have several friends who have combined novel-reading with motherhood very successfully, in my own head I hold a convoluted equation, one based on the approximate number of hours I have left to live versus the number of good books I have left to read, and it is very anxiety-inducing.”
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Also, rum & nog reminds me of a quip from the xmas episode of a favorite sitcom:
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In the US a common quip is that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.
What will the Magistrates do? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Well maybe like her other side of the coin quip, those are just a little extreme.
Crooks and Liars 2008
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I would add that the purpose of the quip is that it is a restatement of “those that don’t do, teach”, or other phrases similar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 2010
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The article’s pretty short, but my favourite part is this quip from a bishop:
arcadia commented on the word quip
I love this word. I love asking people to "tell me what you mean, without the quips".
September 27, 2009
Telofy commented on the word quip
Quippy is cute, too.
September 27, 2009
ajayguhan commented on the word quip
The civic body is planning to provide some temporary cover to the food serving area here. “We want to ensure that rain or sun does not come to create obstacles for the scheme,” an officer quipped.
March 11, 2014