Joker - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Joker :  (noun)
1: a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes [syn: jokester]
2: a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" [syn: turkey]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Joker : \Jok"er\, n. 1. One who makes jokes or jests.

2. (Card Playing) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Bower \Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the ``Joker'') in the game.

Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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