one-liner
See also: oneliner and one liner
English
Alternative forms
- one liner
Noun
one-liner (plural one-liners)
- a short joke, especially one of a single sentence
- witty one-liners
- 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:
- Every crass or tone-deaf moment – including a sexual encounter between Eggsy and a socialite, played by Poppy Delevingne, that at best feels entirely misjudged and at worst a complete betrayal of Eggsy’s cheeky but ultimately quite sweet character – is matched by a wonderfully droll one-liner or nugget of razor-sharp satire.
- a short remark intended as a sound bite
- a textual input to the command-line of an operating system shell that performs some function in just one line of input
Related terms
- tagline
Translations
short joke
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See also
- Thesaurus:joke