Related Clues:

• Play bass like a funk musician
• Midwife's action, perhaps
• Critical comment
• Stinging comment
• Stinging response to an insult?
• Wire feature, perhaps
• Strike sharply
• Delve
• Rebuke from Moe
• Response to a rude advance
• Wrist action?
• Open-handed blow
• Carping remark
• Response to a masher
• Do groundbreaking work?