one-liner
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈwʌnˌlaɪnər/
- Informal
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chiste corto
- She delivered a witty one-liner that perfectly captured the mood of the party.
- funny one-liners
- witty one-liners
- snappy one-liners
I'm not even playing some of your one liners bro.
- I'm not even playing some of your one liners bro.
- And like all of you, I've heard the same exact one liners.
- And so I have like a couple of pages of Mona one liners that just, yeah, just anchor me.
- What's the one liner that showcases how wide glyphosate is so bad for our system?
- Not to mention if he also gives you popular one liners by saying I'm just seeing where this goes then proceed with caution.
- When we flirt it's supposed to be light and playful for the most part and it doesn't have to be perfect and you don't have to have a perfect one liner.
- Logan even knows the right one liners to say like his last words in the weigh in were this is all simulation and the aliens are coming.
- He had it very like introvert, but just had these one liners and didn't say a lot.
- And it shows one liners of the scenes that occur in each act.
- So these interviews that he has with people where all these they take these one liners that he say to sort of portray him as crazy.
Examples
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Evidence is filled with sharp one-liners like this, but Merton proves himself master of more than one trick.
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You know, I used to write one-liners for Walter Winchell.
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The movie has so many amazing one-liners, as well as great lines pulled right from the games!
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I come up with a lot of one-liners, and it's nice to have a place for that.
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Do you only talk in one-liners?
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Keeping these names secret reminds me of the classic one-liner from "Dad's Army."
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I bet Alan Arkin will deliver a bunch of seemingly effortless one-liners that I'll find myself quoting days after.
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Predictably, this subject has inspired some hilarious one-liners by comedians from Jack Benny to Robin Williams, and beyond.
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With a seemingly non-stop barrage of hilarious one-liners, the film seemed to be on the road to comedy brilliance.
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His stand-up routine is full of clever one-liners that leave the audience laughing.
Synonyms
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8.1
A short clever remark that surprises and amuses people
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Etymology
One-liner comes from the simple parts one and line, meaning a 'single line' of speech. A helpful image is a sharp sentence that makes people laugh in one quick line, so a one-liner is a very short, witty joke.