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quintet, n. quintette, quintuplet, cinquain, fivesome, pentad; group of five singers or players, combo, jazz band, rock band.

quip, n. 1. gibe, jape, Inf. wisecrack, Inf. crack, put-down, barb, SI. zinger, squib, smart-aleck remark.
2. joke, jest, witticism, sally, mot, bon mot, ad-lib; gag, waggery, drollery, one-liner, wheeze, pleasantry; pun, double entendre; epigram, apothegm, gnome, aphorism; repartee, riposte, retort.
3. quibble, evasion, equivocation, sophism, ambiguity; cavil, criticism, niggling, nagging.

-v. 4. gibe, Inf. wisecrack, Inf. crack wise, put down, slam, let [s.o.] have it, give [s.o.] a piece of one's mind; joke, jest, gag, kid, kid around; ad-lib, pun; quibble, equivocate, shilly-shally, split hairs, talk with forked tongue, talk out of both sides of one's mouth, mince words; pettifog, bicker, carp, cavil, object, niggle; complain, nag, mouth off.

quipster, n. giber, Sl. wisecracker, Sl. wisenheimer, smart aleck, Sl. kidder; joker, jester, wag, wit, Goodman Ace, humorist, gagman, gagger, gagster, gag writer; jokesmith; punster, epigrammist, aphorizer; quibbler, niggler, carper, caviler.

quirk, n. 1. idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, particularity, singularity, rarity; peculiarity, oddity, curiosity, warp; abnormality, aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, freak, anomaly, Rare, anomalism; irregularity, variation, deviation, discrepancy, exception; mannerism, habit, behavior, one's own way of doing things, affectation; characteristic, trait, feature, attribute, quality, property; quip, crotchet, whim, whimsy, notion, caprice, flight of fancy, vagary, humor; obsession, infatuation, fixation, mania, craze, passion, fetishism, blind devotion; pet idea, hobby-horse, pet peeve, ax to grind, bee in one's bonnet; monomania, fixed idea, Fr. idee fixe, Sl. hang-up.
2. subterfuge, evasion, elusion, avoidance, excuse; equivocation, equivoque, amphibology, ambiguity, double speak, double talk; song and dance, jive, hedging, beating around the bush; quibble, quiddity, subtlety, sophism, sophistry, elenchus, casuistry, Both Disparaging. Jesuitism, Jesuitry, Both Logic, paralogism, antilogism; shift, dodge, shuffle, fancy footwork, maneuver, move; trick, artifice, stratagem, wile, ruse, chicanery, chicane, sham, make-believe, deception; pretext, pretense, front, disguise, mask, veil.
3. twist, turn, curve, angle; flourish, twirl, coil, spiral, fancy stroke, convolution, contortion.

quisling, n. fifth columnist, collaborationist, subversive, conspirator; traitor, Judas, betrayer, renegade, turncoat, deserter.

quit, v. 1. stop, discontinue, desist, Archaic, surcease, end; leave off, break off, pause, intermit, suspend, rest; abate, lessen, lull, quiet down, let up, come to a halt or standstill; (of machinery) Sl. conk out; (all usu. of work) Inf. call it a day, Inf call it quits, Inf. shut up shop, Sl. knock off, Brit, pack it in.
2. depart from, leave, go away from, get away from; take off, flee, fly the coop, Inf skip, take French leave, Sl. cut out, Sl. vamoose; evacuate, vacate, decamp, emigrate. See - leave (defs. 1, 2).
3. abandon, relinquish, abnegate, let go, surrender, concede, yield, submit, Sl. throw in the towel or sponge; resign, abdicate, give up.
4. repudiate, abjure, reject, disown, renounce; renege, forswear, disavow, disclaim, recant; bail out, bow out, pull out of, Inf. back out of, back-pedal, Inf. back away from, back off on, Inf. cop out, Sl. chicken out; apostatize, defect.
5. discard, get rid of, toss off or aside, drop, Inf. ditch, Inf. chuck.