rejoinder
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- n a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher - n (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication
- She decided to write a novel, her first, as the black rejoinder to "Gone With the Wind.
- To those who would call this MTV cartoon the boob tube at its most puerile, I have but one rejoinder: You said "boob.
- The street patois of those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long contained its own racially aggressive "shock" element, with the rejoinder "ta race" (your race) a .