one-liner

See also: oneliner and one liner

English

Alternative forms

• one liner

Etymology

From one +‎ line +‎ -er.

Noun

one-liner (plural one-liners)

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

2. A short remark intended as a sound bite.
3. (computing) A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.

Related terms

• tagline

Translations

short joke

• Bulgarian: остроумие (bg) n (ostroumie)
• Finnish: sutkaus, letkaus
• French: bon mot (fr) m, mot d’esprit (fr) m, trait (fr) m
• German: Einzeiler m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: остро́та (ru) f (ostróta)

See also

• Thesaurus:joke