Word.ws English Dictionary

wisecrack

/ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/

wisecrack noun: a witty or sarcastic comment or quip.

Noun

wisecrack (plural wisecracks)

  1. A witty or sarcastic comment or quip.
    • Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke
    • Cut it out, Sis, an' lissen ter er wise crack. Will yer be nice if I pay yer fine?1904, Chuck Connors, Bowery life
    Synonyms:
    joke

Verb

wisecrack (third-person singular simple present wisecracks, present participle wisecracking, simple past and past participle wisecracked)

  1. (intransitive, sometimes, transitive) To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment.
    Synonyms:
    crack wise

wisecrack meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

wisecrack in Urdu

چوٹ, فقرہ, شوخی آمیز, طنز

wisecrack in Bengali

রসাত্মক, বিদ্রূপাত্মক মন্তব্য, বিদ্রূপাত্মক, উপহাসমূলক মন্তব্য করা

wisecrack in Malayalam

quip, joke, witticism
ഫലിതം പൊട്ടിക്കൽ, തമാശപൊട്ടിക്കൽ, ഫലിതം, ഫലിതപ്രയോഗം, തമാശ, പുതുമ

wisecrack in Kannada

ಜಾಣ್ಣುಡಿ, ಜಾಣತನದ ಮಾತು, ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯೋಕ್ತಿ

Synonyms of wisecrack

Forms of wisecrack

Noun
pluralwisecracks
Verb
third-person singular presentwisecracks
present participlewisecracking
past participlewisecracked
pastwisecracked

Origin of wisecrack

From wise + crack.

Questions about wisecrack

What does wisecrack mean?
Wisecrack means a witty or sarcastic comment or quip.
What is wisecrack in Urdu?
Wisecrack in Urdu is چوٹ, فقرہ, شوخی آمیز. See Wisecrack meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wisecrack?
Wisecrack can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wisecrack?
Wisecrack is pronounced /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/.
What is the plural of wisecrack?
The plural of wisecrack is wisecracks.

Words near wisecrack in the dictionary

  1. wiseass
  2. wiseassery
  3. wiseasses
  4. Wisecarver
  5. Wisecarvers
  6. wisecrack
  7. wisecracked
  8. wisecracker
  9. wisecrackers
  10. wisecrackery
  11. wisecracking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wisecrack (page history and authors); wisecrack (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wisecrack (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wisecrack (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wisecrack (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wisecrack.wav.

Cite this entry: “wisecrack.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wisecrack. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.