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noun

plural of wisecrack

as in jokes

something said or done to cause laughter a whispered wisecrack doubled them over in laughter

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wisecrack

as in quips

to make jokes wisecracked to hide his nervousness during the auditions

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To Saubert, though, Fleury stands out much more for his skill than his opportune wisecracks. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Parton was a master at meeting wisecracks about her shapely figure with her own one-liners. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Barry Diller was full of wisecracks tonight at the PGA Awards. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2026 Chock-full of laugh-out-loud quips and wisecracks, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski and Cheryl Hines also join in on the fun in the boisterous 2017 sequel to the 2016 original Bad Moms. — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025 Nearly every inch of the bar’s narrow interior is plastered with glowing beer logo signs, neon strip lights and posters jeering with bawdy bar jokes and wisecracks. — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Television’s rise forced it to reinvent itself by introducing live disc jockeys who played music and told jokes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
As a teenager, Davidson would sit in the back of the bus and write jokes on his way to and from basketball games and try them on his teammates.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of jokes

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Picking up her weekly shopping, pensioner Ute Istock quips that the choice of apple varieties is as broad as that of candidates on the ballot sheets in last month's city election — adding that this is not necessarily a good thing.

— Esme Nicholson, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Marsh, who played a biologist in the series Unstable, says Stanford-area scientists coached the cast on lab technique, though quips that the academic community may be disappointed by their pipetting.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of quips

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This autumn, there are plenty of comedians rounding the country, all primed to provide you with boundless laughs.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026
Some in San Francisco label him a moderate, though that designation would draw laughs elsewhere in the country and even in Sacramento.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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