wisecracked; wisecracking; wisecracks
: to make a wisecrack
wisecracker
noun
Examples of wisecrack in a Sentence
Noun
Someone in the theater was making wisecracks during the entire movie.
a whispered wisecrack doubled them over in laughter
Verb
wisecracked to hide his nervousness during the auditions
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
In an exclusive preview of the trailer for Entertainment Weekly, Lane teases several wisecracks from the upcoming special, including the white women bit that landed King in the live-TV-flub hall of fame.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
Sometimes the guy who plays your wisecracking dad ends up being a sinister creep.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
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Noun
Look Who’s Talking, starring Kirstie Alley as a single mother whose son—first as an infant and then as a toddler—wisecracks like a sailor on shore leave, though only the audience can hear it.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 July 2025
In an exclusive preview of the trailer for Entertainment Weekly, Lane teases several wisecracks from the upcoming special, including the white women bit that landed King in the live-TV-flub hall of fame.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
The result was a wisecracking A.I. tool named Witscript—a web app where, for $5.99 a month, users can feed in prompts such as news headlines and image descriptions and get back jokes, funny captions and other forms of clever wordplay.
—Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2025
Sometimes the guy who plays your wisecracking dad ends up being a sinister creep.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
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“Wisecrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wisecrack. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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