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cosmic joker

cosmic joker noun: a higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.

Noun

cosmic joker (plural cosmic jokers)

  1. A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.

Forms of cosmic joker

pluralcosmic jokers

Origin of cosmic joker

A term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.

Questions about cosmic joker

What does cosmic joker mean?
Cosmic joker means a higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.
What part of speech is cosmic joker?
Cosmic joker is a noun.
What is the plural of cosmic joker?
The plural of cosmic joker is cosmic jokers.

Words near cosmic joker in the dictionary

  1. cosmic event horizons
  2. cosmic gravitational wave background
  3. cosmic gravitational-wave background
  4. cosmic infrared background
  5. cosmic irony
  6. cosmic joker
  7. cosmic jokers
  8. cosmic latte
  9. cosmic light horizon
  10. cosmic light horizons
  11. cosmic microwave background

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