Definitions for quips

quips quip

Spelling: [kwip]
IPA: /kwɪp/

Quips is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in quips (ipqsu).

Definitions for quips

noun

  1. a clever or witty remark or comment.
  2. a sharp, sarcastic remark; a cutting jest.
  3. a quibble.
  4. an odd or fantastic action or thing.

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter quips.

Origin of quips

1525-35; back formation from quippy quip Latin quippe indeed

Examples for quips

An added bonus, quips the former Marine: “I have the most mine-free house in the entire state of Virginia.”

quips and taunts upon Carr, on the same authority, are imputed to Ralegh.

“Maybe your next movie might be Beasts of the Southern Comfort,” Wilson quips.

We did a comedy table and got a bunch of comedians to talk out joke suggestions, because Spider-Man is known for his quips.

But it is impossible to enter fully on the subject of Fuller's quips.

Her columns never failed to hit the mark, with quips to spare.

I cannot suppose that Sir Galahad found any delight in the quips of fools.

No; there were no smiles on his lips, no quips and cranks on his tongue.

And they were soon between bottle and stopper, and quips a-coursing.

Laugh now at the Jedi quips and congressional tantrums—the pain is coming soon for Americans.

Word Value for quips
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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