quip

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

   Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.

2. 2
   verb

   To make a quip.

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To taunt; to mock with quips.

   the more he laughs, and does her closely quip

4. 4
   noun

   witty remark

5. 5
   noun

   a witty saying

6. 6
   verb

   make jokes or quips

Etymology

From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).