quip /kwɪp/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle quipped , present participle quipping ) [transitive]
[ Date: 1500-1600 ; Origin: Perhaps from Latin quippe 'certainly, indeed' , from quid 'what' ]
to say something clever and amusing:
‘Giving up smoking is easy,’ he quipped. ‘I’ve done it hundreds of times.’
—quip noun [countable] :
an amusing quip