n. 1 (bon) mot, witticism, sally, jest, ad lib, joke, gibe, barb, aphorism, epigram, apophthegm or apothegm, pun, double entendre, equivoque or equivoke, Colloq gag, one-liner, crack, wisecrack, wheeze, chestnut In his worst quip he attributed the breakdown of his computer to a slipped diskette
v. 2 joke, jest, gibe, Colloq wisecrack, US crack wise As Mae West quipped, 'It's not the men in my life that count; it's the life in my men'