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Definition of Clown around
1. Verb. Act as or like a clown.
Generic synonyms: Jest, Joke
Derivative terms: Antic, Clown, Clowning, Clowning
Definition of Clown around
1. Verb. to have fun in an irresponsible manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clown Around
Literary usage of Clown around
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"A winter where the thermometer drops clown around sixty degrees below zero is
not the balmiest weather nor the most equable climate in the world. ..."
2. The Technical World (1904)
"This is equipped with a properly arranged steel guide, through which the steel
concave shovels are driven clown around the platform by use of a maul. ..."
3. English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857)
"... like diggers in California "prospecting for a placer" that will pay. A horizon
of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts clown around his ..."
4. The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland: To which are Added Dialect and Other by Sidney Gilpin (1866)
"... Tempting the grasp of every clown Around the trifle plays : He catches !
full of hopes—'tis gone,— And Simon's left to gaze. ONE SUNDAY MORN IN CHEERFUL ..."
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