Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to quip
Participle: quipped
Gerund: quipping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | quip |
| you | quip |
| he;she;it | quips |
| we | quip |
| you | quip |
| they | quip |
Perfect
| I | have quipped |
| you | have quipped |
| he;she;it | has quipped |
| we | have quipped |
| you | have quipped |
| they | have quipped |
Past
| I | quipped |
| you | quipped |
| he;she;it | quipped |
| we | quipped |
| you | quipped |
| they | quipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had quipped |
| you | had quipped |
| he;she;it | had quipped |
| we | had quipped |
| you | had quipped |
| they | had quipped |
Future
| I | will quip |
| you | will quip |
| he;she;it | will quip |
| we | will quip |
| you | will quip |
| they | will quip |
Future Perfect
| I | will have quipped |
| you | will have quipped |
| he;she;it | will have quipped |
| we | will have quipped |
| you | will have quipped |
| they | will have quipped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | quip |
| you | quip |
| he;she;it | quip |
| we | quip |
| you | quip |
| they | quip |
Perfect
| I | have quipped |
| you | have quipped |
| he;she;it | have quipped |
| we | have quipped |
| you | have quipped |
| they | have quipped |
Imperfect
| I | quipped |
| you | quipped |
| he;she;it | quipped |
| we | quipped |
| you | quipped |
| they | quipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had quipped |
| you | had quipped |
| he;she;it | had quipped |
| we | had quipped |
| you | had quipped |
| they | had quipped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would quip |
| you | would quip |
| he;she;it | would quip |
| we | would quip |
| you | would quip |
| they | would quip |
Perfect
| I | would have quipped |
| you | would have quipped |
| he;she;it | would have quipped |
| we | would have quipped |
| you | would have quipped |
| they | would have quipped |
Imperative
| you | quip |
| we | Let's quip |
| you | quip |
Verbs conjugated like 'quip'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'quip'
equip,
quap,
quid,
quit,
quiz,
quop,
bip,
blip,
bump,
burp,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From a shortening of earlier quippy, perhaps from Latin quippe (“indeed”), ultimately quid (“what”).
Sample Sentences
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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. [2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club:]
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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 us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives." [2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:]
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the more he laughs, and does her closely quip [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing. [1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:]