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Definition of Joker

1. Noun. A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes.

2. Noun. A person who does something thoughtless or annoying. "Some joker is blocking the driveway"

3. Noun. An inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent. "When I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract"

4. Noun. A playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester.

Definition of Joker

1. n. One who makes jokes or jests; a humorist; a wag.

Definition of Joker

1. Noun. A person who makes jokes. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) A funny person ¹

3. Noun. A jester. ¹

4. Noun. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games. ¹

5. Noun. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person. ¹

6. Noun. (New Zealand colloquial) A man. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Joker

1. one that jokes [n -S] - See also: jokes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Joker

jojobas joke book joke books joke shop joke shops jokebook jokebooks joked jokefest jokefests

jokeless jokelike joker (current term) jokers jokes jokesmith jokesmiths jokesome jokester jokesters

jokey jokier jokiest jokily jokiness jokinesses joking

Literary usage of Joker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Siberia To-day by Frederick Ferdinand Moore (1919)
"XXVII THE joker IN BOLSHEVISM THE Bolshevists of Siberia hate wall-paper. ... There is a joker in this "new form of govern- ment" known as Bolshevism. ..."

2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"A "little joker" was a ballot printed with small type on thin paper in order that several might be folded within a regular ballot and deposited without ..."

3. Tales of the Trail: A Book of Western Sketches in Verse by James William Foley (1914)
"... THE ORIGIN OF THE joker SANDY had no tinge of ochre, and he played his hand at poker well supported by the joker in the belt about his waist; ..."

4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1884)
"... of (joker, MP for Somersetshire in 1711, nnd from thin marriage is descended the present Horace Augustus ..."

5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Though the notion you may scout, I can prove beyond a doubt That my mine of jocularity is worked completely out! THE PRACTICAL joker II'. S. Gilbert. ..."

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