Definitions for quip

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Spelling: [kwip]
IPA: /kwɪp/

Quip is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in quip (ipqu).

Definitions for quip

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 quip

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

Examples for quip

quip had followed quip until in their jests they transcended all bounds.

It was nothing—only the quip of a witty fellow, descendant of a Spanish freebooter.

That quip reflected his own travails with thinking outside the box.

Within hours of releasing my quip into the Twittersphere, five different publications jumped on it.

The men may have smiled at Landy's quip but Maizie laughed aloud.

Pepper, a phrase drawn from a quip by another contender, means a second round in the presidential election, to be held in June.

In one of the moments I chatted briefly with him he made a quip about my work that my mother still quotes to this day.

Receiving no answer to the quip, she drew a chair to the table and sat down.

This man, the man of the left, says in private ‘the toothless,’ proud of his quip.

Is not the quip of the Curé worthy of any son of the Emerald Isle?

Word Value for quip
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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