joker

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒəʊkə/    美 /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who makes jokes.
  2. A funny person. slang
  3. A 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. Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card. figuratively
    — Rebus decided to use their joker. 'Mr Lintz made a phone call to this office. He was talking for over twenty minutes.'
  6. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
    — Some joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.
  7. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.; A loser.
    — Don't waste your breath on these jokers round here.
  8. A man. New-Zealand,colloquial
  9. A 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.
  10. A 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)
  11. 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.
  12. A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
    — The problem is that it would be difficult to use a joker offensively since you could never know how it was going to move, meaning it’d be most useful setting it up for potential queen/rook captures to disincentivize your opponent from moving those pieces.

词形变化

jokers plural

词汇关系

近义词
buffoon clown comedian comic cutup funnyman gagman gagster giber humorist jackpudding joker jokester wag wit
上位词
person
下位词
bel esprit buffo burlesquer caricaturist droll epigrammatist fool gagwriter idiot ironist jokesmith lampooner madcap parodist pasquinader prankster punner punster quipster satirist wiseacre wisecracker wit-cracker
衍生词
cosmic joker joker in the pack joker lap practical joker video joker
相关词
joke 🂿 life and soul of the party life of the party jest witty ridicule

词源

From joke + -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of German Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.
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