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Meaning of Quip | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
kwɪp

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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