quip

1. (intransitive) To make a quip.Examples: "In an eerily prescient bit, Kent Brockman laughingly quips that if seventy degree weather in the winter is the Gashouse Effect in action, he doesn’t mind one bit."; "Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives.""intransitive

2. (transitive) To taunt; to treat with quips.Examples: "the more he laughs, and does her closely quip"; "He did not really mind being quipped; the city gentlemen made him used to that sort of thing."transitive