Dictionary
joker
Meaning
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A jester.
- 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.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (colloquial) A man.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒəʊkə/
Etymology
From joke + -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.
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