Meanings (ES + gloss)
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A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
He was full of joke and jest, / But all his merry quips are o'er.
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
ironizar
To make a quip.
In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit.
Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for…
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