quip
noun/kwɪp/
/kwɪp/
- 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’.Definitions on the go
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