Joker
['dʒəʊkə] or ['dʒokɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester.
(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'.
(noun.) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes.
(noun.) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; 'some joker is blocking the driveway'.
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who makes jokes or jests.
(n.) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.
Checked by Jean
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Jester, wag, humorist.
Typed by Hector
Examples
- A joker of an extremely, not to say wolfishly practical character, he looked, under those circumstances. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He's just a big-hearted joker. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There, his eyes happening to catch the tall joker writing up his joke, he called to him across the way: Say, then, my Gaspard, what do you do there? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Though known as such a joker, I be an understanding man if you catch me serious, and I am serious now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In his expostulation he dropped his cleaner hand (perhaps accidentally, perhaps not) upon the joker's heart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Checker: Mara