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plural quips
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. quotations examples
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […]
He wrote it down, remembering a quip of Pym's, paraphrased from Clemenceau: "Military intelligence has as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do with music.”
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
Nobody could ever be bothered to imagine the Sand Snakes beyond personalized weaponry and fake-aggressive quips, none of which were very convincing, and now they don’t even register as dead weight.
2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
third-person singular simple present quips, present participle quipping, simple past and past participle quipped
(intransitive) To make a quip. quotations examples
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.
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club
(transitive) To taunt; to treat with quips. quotations examples
the more he laughs, and does her closely quip
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing.
1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman