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UK
/wˈaɪskɹæk/
]
[ US /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/ ]
[ US /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/ ]
VERB
- make a comment, usually ironic
NOUN
- witty remark
How To Use wisecrack In A Sentence
- In both there is a father who disappears, a mother who would rather be elsewhere, a manipulative clergyman, a wisecracking love interest, a fatal unicycle or bicycle accident, a budding artist, and a flight to the city.
- He made some wisecrack about my lack of culinary ability.
- Obviously I would work my wisecracks into the conversation carefully.
- Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
- He also has a fondness for baseball caps, and presides over the recording studio much like a sports coach might encourage his team from a dug-out, cajoling, wisecracking and offering suggestions.
- Between their comic-relief scenes — like collaring guys in hot dog costumes — Renzulli's wisecracks, Jamie's wet-behind-the-ears earnestness and their effortless rapport, it's easy to see why fans are yearning for more. Blue Bloods' Oddly Perfect Partners Building on "Great Chemistry"
- Much wisecracking, little introspection, in other words, as an officer who has used his brains and not the rulebook to solve military situations gets sent to the arse end of nowhere to serve with a crew of misfits on an old rustbucket, wherein he is reunited with an old sidekick. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starship Mutiny - Mike Resnick
- The cast deals admirably with a difficult script which is peppered with acerbic one-liners and wonderfully witty wisecracks.
- Ungainly, provokable, I batted at the wisecracks and taunts of my peers as at a swarm of wasps. LIGHT FINGERS
- It is not that he is without humour or fun - friends in Sweden such as Bengt Skoog, the freelance journalist based in Larsson's home town of Helsingborg, regularly tell of his wisecracking and wind-ups.