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Joker

noun

A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes. Synonym: jokester.

A person who does something thoughtless or annoying. Synonym: turkey.

An inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent.

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

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"Joker" Quotes from Famous Books

... her of his departure, and started on his two- hundred-and-fifty mile trip over the mountains to the south. As his car sped through sleeping Sequoia and gained the open country, the Colonel's heart thrilled pleasurably. He held cards and spades, big and little casino, four aces and the joker; therefore he knew he could sweep the board at his pleasure. And during his absence Shirley would have opportunity to cool off, while he would find time to formulate an argument to lull ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... steward in the Navy. In the course of this deversified career his natural wit and waggery had been highly spiced, and every way improved; and he had acquired the last and most difficult art of the joker, the art of lengthening his own face while widening those of his hearers, preserving the utmost solemnity while setting them all in a roar. He was quite a favourite with the sailors, which, in a good ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... water to quench all the domestic furnaces that required lighting or quenching; and never since at Azay has been such vicar seen! A handsome vicar was he, square-shouldered, fresh coloured, always blessing and chuckling, preferred weddings and christenings to funerals, a good joker, pious in Church, and a man in everything. There have been many vicars who have drunk well and eaten well; others who have blessed abundantly and chuckled consumedly; but all of them together would hardly make up the sterling worth of this aforesaid vicar; and he alone has worthily filled his ...

— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac

... said Camille, "this joker has been employed at the Orleans-Railway-Station for eighteen months, and it was only to-night that we met and recognised one another—the administration is ...

— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola

... bores you. 'Oh, go away—can't you see I'm busy? I've got a malignant growth here, potted in a glass bottle with a diet of sterilised fat and an occasional whisky and soda, and we're sitting around until the joker develops D.T. He's an empyema, ...

— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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