wisecrack
7 synonyms for wisecrack, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A quick, clever and slightly cheeky remark, often made at someone else's expense.
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A quick, clever and slightly cheeky remark, often made at someone else's expense.
“He could not resist a wisecrack about the manager's new haircut.”
How to use wisecrack
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Informal, with a mid-twentieth-century American flavour that many speakers now find slightly dated.
Etymology
A compound of wise, in the slang sense of impudent or knowing, and crack, a sharp spoken remark; American in origin.
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