Definition of "wisecrack" []

• A flippant, typically sardonic remark or retort. See Synonyms at joke. (noun)
• To make or utter a wisecrack. (verb-intransitive)

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• "When he digs into the family conflicts, he stays a bit on the surface, though as someone raised to believe the wisecrack is the highest form of human expression, it's a bit hard for me to complain."
• "Right, the news here is that McCain and his wife bantered playfully -- and that McCain made a "wisecrack" about cigarettes."
• "He uses paradox, proverb, exaggeration, parable, irony; even I mean no irreverence the "wisecrack"."