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Caustic retort
Answer for the clue "Caustic retort ", 6 letters:
zinger
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Word definitions for zinger in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And, once he had everyone set up with the low key stuff, he unloaded a couple of surprise zingers.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a striking or amusing or caustic remark; "he always greeted me with a new zinger"; "she tried to think of some killer of an argument, a real zinger that would disarm all opposition"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx informal English) A very rapidly moving object, especially one that is thrown. 2 (cx informal English) A surprising or unusually pointed or telling remark. 3 (cx informal English) An event that when experienced leaves the witness dazed, either ...
Usage examples of zinger.
There were times when the old tummler from Deathship Borscht Belt snuck a zinger through the fuzzy golden haze.
I spent half an hour over there and she put him down constantly, all these barbs and zingers, little ha-has at his expense.
Red Razberry Zingers, however, was aimed at a segment of the market with a sweeter tooth: at those prepared-cereal caters who bought such cereals as Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Lucky Charms, and similar pre-sweetened breakfast foods which were somewhere in the twilight zone between cereal and candy.
Which meant, Vic assumed, that the kid was using the Zingers debacle to dump them at last.
A doctor told Vic that if a child who had just died after ingesting a big bowl of Red Razberry Zingers were the subject of an autopsy, the postmortem would reveal a digestive tract as red as a stop sign.
Instead of going to Cleveland with their necks shaved for the drop of the guillotine blade, they would show up with battle plans drawn to reverse the effects of the Zingers snafu.
Up until this morning she had treated the Red Razberry Zingers affair as a joke - a rather good one at Vic and Roger's expense.
If not for the crazy Razberry Zingers business and the rotten trip hanging over his head, he would feel that this could be a pretty good summer too.
The cereals themselves had shown a sudden dip in sales but had since made up most of the ground that had been lost after Zingers showed its treacherous red face.
Since the Zingers fiasco, two clients (including Cannes-Look jeans) had canceled their arrangements with I-E, and if Ad Worx lost the Sharp account, Rob would lose other accounts in addition to Sharp.
We can maybe pitch it to the old man as the final scene in the Red Razberry Zingers farce.
If pressed for his best guess, he would have said that probably Harrington would have to be stroked a little - he had been just miserable over the Zingers affair and what he considered it had done to his image.
The old man sees the Zingers thing as a replay of the Alamo - we're the good guys standing on the battlements, standing by to repel the boarders.