Quip

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwÄ­p, IPA: /kwɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Origin

Perhaps from Latin quippe ("indeed").

Full definition of quip

Noun

1. A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
• MiltonQuips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
• TennysonHe was full of joke and jest,
  But all his merry quips are o'er.

Synonyms

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a quip.
• 2012, June 3, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992), 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.
2. (transitive) To taunt; to treat with quips.
• Spenserthe more he laughs, and does her closely quip