Usually means: A joker is a playful trickster.
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  1. joker: Merriam-Webster
  2. joker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. joker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Joker, joker: Wordnik
  7. joker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. joker: Wiktionary
  9. joker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. joker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. joker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Joker, joker: Dictionary.com
  13. joker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Joker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. joker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. joker: Rhymezone
  18. joker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. joker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. joker: FreeDictionary.org
  21. joker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. joker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. The Joker: Who2
  24. joker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Joker (disambiguation), The Joker (disambiguation), joker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOKER: Acronym Finder
  2. joker: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. joker, joker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. joker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Joker: Dan's Poker
  2. Joker: Backgammon
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who makes jokes.
noun:  (slang) A funny person.
noun:  A jester.
noun:  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.
noun:  (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
noun:  An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
noun:  A loser.
noun:  (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
noun:  A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
noun:  (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
noun:  The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
noun:  A fictional villain of DC Comics, noted for his insanity and cunning, who either wears clown makeup or is disfigured to appear as such, and who is archenemy of Batman.

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