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one-liner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-liner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's a hilarious scene with a succession of brilliant one-liners from Groucho Marx.
▪ There are some memorable one-liners in every Woody Allen film.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners.
▪ Creole utterances in conversations like these are usually one-liners.
▪ If you can not tell long jokes without getting lost, stick to one-liners.
▪ In other words, a real character - who happens to talk in hilarious one-liners.
▪ Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
▪ There were clips from the campaign trail and one-liners from Mr Kinnock's speeches.
▪ There, I've said it on record and without recourse to a single one-liner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one-liner

"short joke, witty remark," 1969, from one + line.

Wiktionary
one-liner

alt. 1 a short joke, especially one of a single sentence 2 a short remark intended as a sound bite 3 a textual input to the command-line of an operating system shell that performs some function in just one line of input n. 1 a short joke, especially one of a single sentence 2 a short remark intended as a sound bite 3 a textual input to the command-line of an operating system shell that performs some function in just one line of input

WordNet
one-liner

n. a one-line joke

Wikipedia
One-liner

One-liner may refer to:

  • One-line joke
  • One-liner program, textual input to the command-line of an operating system shell that performs some function in just one line of input
  • Tagline, a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising
  • one-line haiku

Usage examples of "one-liner".

Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.

A nice solid one-liner, the bum joke was one of Bill's favorites, and even as he turned over his act dozens of times over the next decade, it was one of a few sure crowd-pleasers that he never junked entirely.

And similarly, the deadpan blandness with which Dean in the role of Matt Helm tosses off dumb one-liners in the face of imminent death nullifies all the old claims for tragic dignity, or for high seriousness in art.

They had no idea that their youngest child was upstairs carefully typing one-liners and locking them up in a scuffed briefcase underneath his bed.

Coming up with one-liners to volley back and forth was a grind, their comedy homework, but what the guys did effortlessly, for pure joy, was to spend hours perfecting drawling impressions of their parents.

I could see Simmonds liked that, as if he'd practiced his one-liners so the timing was just right.

The pop articles with their one-liners and exclamation points had their suggestive moments, no doubt about it.