one-liner

plural one-liners · alternative one liner

1. A short joke, especially one of a single sentence.

   witty one-liners

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   ALMOST without exception, Moore’s narrators have comic yet dark stories to tell: they fire off crisp, De Vriesian one-liners and then, when you least expect it, sneak in wrenching revelations.

   1994 October 3, Lorrie Moore, “Briefly Noted”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026

   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.

   2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2021

2. A short remark intended as a sound bite.
3. computingA command or small program consisting of a single line of input.
4. computingA chat feature on a bulletin board system or web page where users can post a single line of text at a time.