intransitive. To make a quip or quips; to be wittily sarcastic. Also with †at, with.

To utter sharp, tart, or cutting words or remarks; to speak or reply irritably or abruptly. Usually with at.

transitive. To taunt (a person), to make the object of a jibe or jibes. Also intransitive: to direct a jibe at a person. Cf. quip, v. 2a. Obsolete…

to lash out: to strike out violently, to lay about one vigorously; (of a horse) to kick out. Also figurative †Also to lash it out.

To be severely critical, to utter insults. U.S. slang. rare.

intransitive. colloquial. To unleash a verbal attack on; to criticize sharply. Cf. sense 5d, tear, v.1 9c(b).

intransitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. to lace into: to attack or assault, esp. verbally; to criticize strongly; to lay into.

intransitive. To criticize (a person or thing) severely; to launch a verbal attack on.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Trouble, unpleasantness, ‘hassle’; unstinting criticism or disparagement. Frequently in to give (make, have,etc.) grief.

spec. To upbraid scathingly, decry, revile. Also absol. Cf. earlier excoriating adj. at additions.