Local English word record

zinger

noun · 1 sense

a striking or amusing or caustic remark

Practice this word

Examples

  • he always greeted me with a new zinger
  • she tried to think of some killer of an argument, a real zinger that would disarm all opposition

Word relationships

Source and method

This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0