one-liner in English

noun
1
a short joke or witty remark.
Some people start with a one-liner or a joke, I personally like short stories that in a simple way say something about the speaker, or the topic, or sometimes both at the same time.

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1. Use your one-liner skills sparingly.

2. Cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?

3. There, I've said it on record and without recourse to a single one-liner.

4. At Brighten Lending, we understand that some questions may require more than a one liner answer

5. Take the output of find, a list of files, and pass it to the one-liner.

6. Jones, master of the one-liner and author of Where Do Comedians Go When They Die?

7. And all he gets are these one-liner and bum steers and cheerful shrugs that may or may not be disingenuous.

8. A wink and a one-liner instantly changed the dinner from a red-faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.

9. You should never run a one-liner outright; always print out what it will do before you actually run the command.

10. He had requested a transfer from his previous club with a faxed one-liner: "the salmon that idles its way downstream will never leap the waterfall.

11. An Astute mixture of laughter and tears, the screenplay constantly pulls back from the edge of outright sentimentality with a sarcastic one-liner or a cheeky remark

12. As a one-liner it ultimately proved too complex, and the messages regarding what is about to be executed are necessary when system files are going to be modified.

13. If a comedic scene is going to call for an extremely expensive set to deliver a funny one-liner, the script is probably not going to be picked up by a producer.

14. In the age of the TV sitcom , witty New York repartee and the instant one-liner, Western wisdom in the modern sense can mean something more like the dialogue from an American sitcom.

15. 1 day ago · “The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.” is the World Nuclear Assosciations one liner, it’s fair enough, although one of the flaws of the design is that “adequate training” is a doctoral level competence in nuclear chemistry and engineering.