Repartee

Noun

 * 1) A swift, witty retort.
 * 2) A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
 * 3) *1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
 * Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany...

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:joke

Verb

 * 1) To reply with a repartee
 * 2) To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees)
 * 1) To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees)

Thesaurus
acknowledgment, answer, answering, antiphon, aphorism, apothegm, back answer, back talk, backchat, badinage, banter, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, comeback, conceit, crack, echo, epigram, evasive reply, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, gibe, give and take, happy thought, humor, irony, mot, nasty crack, patter, persiflage, play of wit, pleasantry, quip, quips and cranks, raillery, reaction, ready reply, receipt, rejoinder, replication, reply, repost, rescript, rescription, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retort, return, reverberation, riposte, sally, sarcasm, satire, scintillation, short answer, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, stroke of wit, turn of thought, wisecrack, wit, witticism, witty reply, witty retort, wordplay, yes-and-no answer

Etymology
From repartie:, deverbal of repartir:

Noun

 * French:

Anagrams

 * pear tree
 * repeater