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wise-cracking

wise-cracking is the alternative form of wisecracking.

Meaning of wisecracking

Adjective

wisecracking (comparative more wisecracking, superlative most wisecracking)

  1. Making many wisecracks.
    • a wisecracking narrator

Forms of wise-cracking

comparativemore wise-cracking
superlativemost wise-cracking

Questions about wise-cracking

What is wise-cracking the alternative form of?
Wise-cracking is the alternative form of wisecracking.

Words near wise-cracking in the dictionary

  1. wise-apple
  2. wise-apples
  3. wise-ass
  4. wise-assery
  5. wise-asses
  6. wise-cracking
  7. wise-guy
  8. wise-guys
  9. wise-hearted
  10. wise-like
  11. wiseacre

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