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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quip .
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Examples
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Phones are for phone calls, girl! the comic quipped from the stage as Vanessa sat in the audience.
Dane Cook Vanessa Hudgens Barb Cut From Teen Choice Awards 2009
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"We can see 2012 from our house," Sarah Palin quipped recently, setting off another round of will-she-or-won't-she speculation.
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Positioning Themselves For 2012 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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As Fortin quipped, and Nietzsche fumed, few philosophers and theologians know what they are about.
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John McCain quipped yesterday that Barack Obama is "running for Jimmy Carter's second term."
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As Fortin quipped, and Nietzsche fumed, few philosophers and theologians know what they are about.
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Mark Twain quipped that every relevant fact known about the Stratford author would fit on a postcard, and another century of literary biography hasn't changed that.
Sunday Reading 2007
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"My offices might be in Rome and I might be writing in Latin," quipped Paul Handley, the editor of the Church Times, the leading Anglican newspaper, yesterday.
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"My offices might be in Rome and I might be writing in Latin," quipped Paul Handley, the editor of the Church Times, the leading Anglican newspaper, yesterday.
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"My offices might be in Rome and I might be writing in Latin," quipped Paul Handley, the editor of the Church Times, the leading Anglican newspaper, yesterday.
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"Falls Church is a really gay high school," Joey quipped, meaning that he found far more "out" (as in openly gay) students there than at Yorktown, where there were only one or two.
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