wisecracked; wisecracking; wisecracks
: to make a wisecrack
wisecracker
noun
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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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Lydia Price, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
For the first half of the movie, her animal friends make plenty of wisecracks about how easily animals die in the wild.
—Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
He’s become a familiar face across film and television, appearing as Anne Hathaway’s father in Rachel Getting Married (2008), Matthew McConaughey’s wisecracking tactical robot in Interstellar (2014), and Mariska Hargitay’s therapist in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2022).
—EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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Noun
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).
—Lydia Price, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
For the first half of the movie, her animal friends make plenty of wisecracks about how easily animals die in the wild.
—Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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.
—Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
He’s become a familiar face across film and television, appearing as Anne Hathaway’s father in Rachel Getting Married (2008), Matthew McConaughey’s wisecracking tactical robot in Interstellar (2014), and Mariska Hargitay’s therapist in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2022).
—EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Wisecrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wisecrack. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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