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  • noun Plural form of wisecracker.

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Examples

  • The wisecrackers said he had a hot temper and sought transfers to other departments.

    Human Resources Traci Moore 2011

  • I also gave away a few wisecrackers that were given to me in San Jose by Mike Ahrens, though I kept these for myself:

    BSNYC Road Dairy: Last Stop Portland BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • The kind in which a foot meets with a ball – decidedly unlike American football, which many wisecrackers have suggested would be more appropriately titled “Throwball.”

    Buzzine » The Beautiful Game 2008

  • And, yeah, we already thought of a toupee, you wisecrackers.

    Help Put Ripley on a Calendar 2006

  • And, yeah, we already thought of a toupee, you wisecrackers.

    Help Put Ripley on a Calendar 2006

  • Albert Katz, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, has recently looked at the wisecrackers 'focus on one-upsmanship from a biological perspective, showing that people whose brains are best equipped to understand sarcasm tend to have aggressive personalities.

    David Fiderer: Maureen Dowd, and The Women of Washington Who Project on to Hillary 2008

  • And, yeah, we already thought of a toupee, you wisecrackers.

    November 2006 2006

  • It has been blurtingly bruited by certain wisecrackers (the stinks of Mohorat are in the nightplots of the morning), that he suffered from a vile disease.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • That's the real scandal surrounding Goldman Sachs, or Government Sachs as the wisecrackers have come to call it.

    NY Post: News By JOHN CRUDELE 2010

  • That's the real scandal surrounding Goldman Sachs, or Government Sachs as the wisecrackers have come to call it.

    NY Post: News By JOHN CRUDELE 2010

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