jokernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdəʊ.kər/us/ˈdʒoʊ.kɚ/joker noun [ C ] (CARD)
a special playing card that can be given any value and is used in some card games instead of any other card
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- pass
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- snap
- solitaire
- strip poker
- suit
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joker noun [ C ] (FUNNY PERSON)
someone who likes telling funny stories or doing stupid things in order to make people laugh:
He's always been a joker and can't resist playing tricks on people.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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Entertainers in general
joker noun [ C ] (ANNOYING PERSON)
informal a person who has done something that annoys you:
Some joker keeps setting off the fire alarm.
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Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- mouth-breather
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- silly billy idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
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Idiom(s)
joker in the pack