Meaning

A person who makes jokes..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.
4. 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.
5. (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
6. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
7. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
8. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.

Example Sentences

Rebus decided to use their joker. 'Mr Lintz made a phone call to this office. He was talking for over twenty minutes.'

Tash Wilson played her 'joker' , pulling her chair so close our legs were almost touching. 'Hey, Chris, do you want to go out sometime? All you've got to do is say the word.'

The director made me understand that my bubble of stardom could burst just as soon as it had been inflated if I didn't watch my attitude. Then he used his joker. I had an understudy so if I messed up or tried to create a scene, I would be summarily replaced.

Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.

Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.

Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]

Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.

The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.

Word Forms

• jokers

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