The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BARBS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Zingers crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BARBS | 37 % | 5 |
| MOTS | 37 % | 4 |
| RETORTS | 7 % | 7 |
| ONELINERS | 7 % | 9 |
| RIPOSTES | 7 % | 8 |
| INSULTS | 4 % | 7 |
Why may BARBS be the right solution?
"Barbs" are sharp and critical remarks, which are often referred to as zingers in colloquial language.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Zingers
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mots
- witticisms
- wisecracks
- quips
- barbs
- gags
- jokes
- bons mots
- liners
- yuks
- gibes
- repartee
Crossword Answer definitions
BARBS noun- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
- A horse.
- One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
- Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
- A bit for a horse.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
- To cut (hair).
- To shave or dress the beard of.
- To clip; to mow.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- A barbiturate.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result BARBS
- "Devil's rope" features
- Fence fixtures
- Snide remarks
- Fishhook features
- Cutting comments
- Verbal digs
- Carping comments
- Pointed parts
- Pointed remarks
- Zingers
More clues leading to the result MOTS
- Witty remarks
- Words said in Lille
- Quips
- See 55-Down
- Zingers
- Memorable phrases
- Wit's words
- Witticisms
- Bits of wit
- Bons __: witticisms
More clues leading to the result RETORTS
- Some back talk
- Comebacks
- Verbal parries
- Snappy comebacks
- Quick comebacks
- "Are too!" and "Am not!"
- Answers
- Witty comebacks
- Quick answers
- Sass
More clues leading to the result ONELINERS
- Henny Youngman specialties
- Many comedic tweets
- Vaudeville fare
- Jokes like Henny Youngman's
- Some zingers
- Short, snappy jokes
- Routine fodder
- Sitcom fodder
- Sitcom array
- Routine fare?
More clues leading to the result RIPOSTES
- Witty answers
- Comebacks
- Zingers
- Rejoinders
- Sharp retorts.
- Return thrusts.
- Swift replies.
- Comebacks.
- Counterstrokes
- Retorts