The definition of a quip is a witty or funny comment or remark.
(noun)An example of a quip is the remark by Woody Allen: "In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows."
To quip is to make a witty remark.
(verb)When Fred Allen made the funny remark "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me," this is an example of a time when Fred Allen quipped.
See quip in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: contr. < earlier quippy < L quippe, indeed, forsooth < quid, what + -pe, emphatic enclitic
intransitive verb
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See quip in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Alteration of obsolete quippy
Origin: , perhaps from Latin quippe, indeed
Origin: , from quid, what; see kwo- in Indo-European roots
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