Joker - Definition and Overview

A joker is the common name for the representation of a medieval court jester or harlequin. A joker typically wears a floppy, multi-pointed hat made of cloth fabric with jingle bells at the tips of the points. The joker wears colorful clothing, laughs incessantly, and often holds a mock scepter known as a marotte in his hand.

The term joker is most often a reference to one of two special cards in a Anglo-American playing card deck that are used as wild cards. Jingle bells batman smells, robin laid an egg, batmobile lost a wheel and JOKER got away, hey!

See Also

• Joker (playing card)
• The Joker (Batman character).