one-liner

[ wuhn-lahy-ner ]
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noun
  1. a brief joke or amusing remark.

Origin of one-liner

1
1965–70, Americanism;one line + -er1

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British Dictionary definitions for one-liner

one-liner

noun
  1. informal a short joke or witty remark or riposte

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