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How to use joker in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Joker means a person who makes jokes. Example: “Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.”

Examples of joker by meaning

nounSomething kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.

  • Rebus decided to use their joker.2008 September 18, Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden: The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  • Tash Wilson played her 'joker' , pulling her chair so close our legs were almost touching.2012 January 1, Simon Packham, Silenced, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd., →ISBN
  • Then he used his joker.2016 October 17, Dipo Adesida, My French Teacher Had an Igbo Accent: An Inspiring Collection of Memories, Memoirs and Mischiefs, Partridge...

nounAn unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

  • Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.

nounA loser.

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

nounA clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.

  • 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.1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment, page lxxxiii
  • 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.1942, Billboard, volume 54, number 41, page 5
  • 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.1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting, page 12

nounA friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.

  • Joker - A friendly track or contact acting as a "suspect" track for exercise purposes only. (STANAG 1241)1998, APP-6A: Military Symbols for Land-Based Systems, page 9

nounThe 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.

More sentences with joker

  • The joker is a buffoonic playing card.From the entry buffoonic
  • Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with the boyish smile.December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023. From the entry practical joker
  • He was a bit of a geezer, a joker, one of the lads.2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry geezer
  • The usual jokers were taking tri-dims of the crowd and playing them back to each other.2005, Karen Haber, Crossing Infinity, New York, N.Y.: ibooks, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry tridim
  • Plus, jokers don't, as a rule, shoot at the jokees.2014, Becky Bartness, How to Die and Live to Tell About It. From the entry jokee
  • A normal feller going about his business will give ya the once over without a squirm, but not this joker.2012, G. S. Manson, chapter 10, in Coorparoo Blues & the Irish Fandango, Portland, Or.: Verse Chorus Press, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry fizgig
  • Some joker beheaded ‘classes’ and made it into ‘lasses’, but the professor then got his own back by deleting the ‘I’.2003, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games. From the entry beheadment
  • But you fall into yourself around these, these jokers.2002, Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down: And Other Stories, page 185. From the entry fall into oneself
  • The game in use was the regular "draw poker," with, occasionally, the additional tingle of jackpots and an omnivicarious joker.1951, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Speak, Memory. From the entry omnivicarious
  • I can only put up one card against a hand like that, but I guess he is the joker.'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry bobtail flush
  • Joker: We're sitting ducks out here.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2. From the entry sitting duck
  • Joker: Everything cuts out after that.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1. From the entry dead
  • Have you labeled your edited master so some joker doesn’t come around tomorrow morning and record a Bugs Bunny cartoon over your precious program?1990, Peter Utz, “Editing a Videotape”, in Create Excellent Video, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “When You’re…. From the entry doodlehead
  • So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian…. From the entry lothario
  • Clowncore – near-ridiculous renditions of recognizable joker motifs – is sweeping the cirque du runway and ringmasters of the fashion circus are taking the theatrical trend to new heights.2023 March 29, Brooke Kato, “‘Clowncore,’ trend rocked by Harry Styles and Lady Gaga, is no joke”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News…. From the entry clowncore
  • The episode finds Springfield in the midst of a hellacious blizzard that, not surprisingly, brings out the joker in the town’s resident morning zoo proprietors Marty and Bill.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please…. From the entry bring out
  • It's a good job there was no need for a baseball infographic about “The joker” because I'd have been forced to use a terrible pun: the pompatus of glove.2011, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, →ISBN. From the entry pompatus

Meaning of joker

  1. noun A person who makes jokes.
  2. noun A funny person.
  3. noun A jester.

Full definition of joker

Questions about joker in a sentence

How do you use joker in a sentence?
Joker is used as a noun. For example: “Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.”
What is a short sentence with joker?
“Then he used his joker.”
What does joker mean?
Joker means a person who makes jokes.

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