joker

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒəʊkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

joker (plural jokers)

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.

   Synonyms: court jester, fool, 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. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

   Synonym: clown

   Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.

   1. A loser.

      Don't waste your breath on these jokers round here.

6. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
7. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
   • 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment, page lxxxiii:

     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.

   • 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons, volume 218, page 858:

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

   • 1942, Billboard, volume 54, number 41, page 5:

     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.

   • 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting, page 12:

     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.

8. (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
   • 1998, APP-6A: Military Symbols for Land-Based Systems, page 9:

     Joker - A friendly track or contact acting as a "suspect" track for exercise purposes only. (STANAG 1241)

9. The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.

   We used our joker as soon as the topic of sports was announced, since we are sport experts.

• joke

• 🂿, 🃏, 🃟

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

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• Joker (character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Rojek, jerko

From English joker.

joker

1. joker (playing card)

• “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog

From English joker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoːkər/

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• Rhymes: -oːkər

joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)

1. joker (playing card)
2. any wild card or similar, even in non-card games

Borrowed from English joker.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.kɛʁ/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /dʒo.kœʁ/, [dʒoʊ̯.kœʁ]

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joker m (plural jokers)

1. (card games) joker
2. (computing) wildcard
3. (on a game show) lifeline
4. (Scrabble) blank tile

• “joker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English joker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʐɔ.kɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
• Syllabification: jo‧ker

joker m animal

1. (card games) Alternative spelling of dżoker

• joker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• joker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: jo‧ker

joker m (plural jokers)

1. Alternative form of jóquer

Borrowed from French joker, English joker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒo.kər/

joker m (plural jokeri)

1. (card games) joker