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Quip - What does it mean?

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quip

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
  • * Milton
    • Quips , and cranks, and wanton wiles.
  • * Tennyson
    • He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.

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    Verb

  • To make a quip.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.}}
  • To taunt; to treat with quips.
  • * Spenser
    • the more he laughs, and does her closely quip

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