To quip means to say something that is intended to be amusing or clever. `He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped The chairman quipped that he would rather sell his airline than his computer systems. to say something clever and amusing (Perhaps from quippe , from quid )
The Question Interchange Profile is a data format being developed by the Virtual Reference Desk that uses metadata to maintain, track and store question-answer sets in a consistent file format