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joker 1. an extra playing card in a pack, which in many card games can substitute for or rank above any other card 2. Chiefly US a clause or phrase inserted in a legislative bill in order to make the bill inoperative or to alter its apparent effect How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Politics--Under God These are solemn times-- Laughter is the worst of crimes: If jokesters try their tricks of wit, Eradicate both them and it. GLENDALE -- More than 200 mourners, many in military uniforms, bade farewell Thursday to a young Sylmar man they knew as a singer, a jokester, a confidant and, in the end, a soldier in Iraq. Like many depressives, Lincoln was both a workaholic and a jokester, and his alternating spells of joke-telling and silent withdrawal were the visible face of his "effort to contain his dark feelings and thoughts. |
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