joker
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A person who makes jokes.
- 2.
(slang)A funny person.
- 3.
A jester.
Đồng nghĩa: 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.
(figuratively)(figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- 6.
An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.
Đồng nghĩa: clown
- 7.
(New Zealand, colloquial)A man.
- 8.
A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- 9.
(military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- 10.
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.
- 11.
(chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
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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.