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quip 1 of 2

noun

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as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit has his share of the quips that seem to come with a title of nobility

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as in joke
something said or done to cause laughter the crowd laughed aloud at the author's clever quip

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verb

as in to joke
to make jokes she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped, "You're a legend in your own mind, all right"

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“Quip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quip. Accessed 9 Dec. 2022.

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