quipnoun [ C ]
uk/kwɪp/us/kwɪp/a humorous and clever remark:
It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life mimicking art.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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quip
verb [ I ] ukusplural -pp-
[ + speech ] When asked earlier why he seemed to be so relaxed, Mr McCarthy quipped: "It's the drugs."