quip

noun

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

   “Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.”

   “He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.”

   “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.””

   “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.”

verb

1. (intransitive)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.”

   “Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."”

2. (transitive)To taunt; to mock with quips.

   “the more he laughs, and does her closely quip”

   “He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing.”