wisecracked; wisecracking; wisecracks
: to make a wisecrack
wisecracker
noun
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Examples of wisecrack in a Sentence
Noun
Someone in the theater was making wisecracks during the entire movie.
a whispered wisecrack doubled them over in laughter
Verb
wisecracked to hide his nervousness during the auditions
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David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Chock-full of laugh-out-loud quips and wisecracks, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski and Cheryl Hines also join in on the fun in the boisterous 2017 sequel to Bad Moms (2016).
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Lydia Price, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Jack Smart, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Gorgeously textured and frequently very funny—Griffin’s wisecracking younger brother, Oren, is a scene-stealer—the book’s particular portrait of late-20th-century, upper-middle-class adolescence takes a generously wide angle, reveling in all the heady, scuzzy, confusing bits of coming of age.
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Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
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And yes, that dollar figure is the 77th million wisecrack over Jimbo Fisher’s buyout.
—Verb
Following 2019’s photorealistic remake of The Lion King, Eichner and Rogen reprise their roles as the wisecracking meerkat and warthog in Mufasa: The Lion King.
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“Wisecrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wisecrack. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
wisecrack
noun
wise·crack
ˈwīz-ˌkrak
: a clever, smart, or joking remark
wisecrack
verb
wisecracker
noun
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