1. one who jokes, jester; one of two extra playing cards in a deck of cards. a person who tells jokes and likes to laugh Jerry is some joker! He makes everybody laugh. joker\jok"er\ , n.
2. one who makes jokes or jests.
3. (card playing) see:
rest bower , under 2d bower.joker n.
4. a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes [syn: jokester].
5. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" [syn: turkey].
6. joker.
7. One who makes jokes or jests; a humorist; a wag.
8. See Best bower, under 2d Bower. a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
9. A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.
10. A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.
11. A place of low resort, as for smoking opium.
12. Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure.
13. One who, or that which, joints.
14. A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joi.
15. joker. joker.
16. 1. Someone who is a joker likes making jokes or doing amusing things. He is, by nature, a joker, a witty man with a sense of fun.
17. The joker in a pack of playing cards is the card which does not belong to any of the four suits.
18. disapproval You can call someone a joker if you think they are behaving in a stupid or dangerous way. Keep your eye on these jokers, you never know what they will come up with. = idiot.
19. If you describe someone or something as the joker in the pack, you mean that they are different from the other people or things in their group, and can be unpredictable.