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Definition of quip noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

quip

noun
 
/kwɪp/
 
/kwɪp/
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  1. a quick and clever remark
    • to make a quip
    • The senator made several quips during the interview, which got the audience laughing.
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Latin quippe ‘indeed, forsooth’.
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