Batman's nemesis

Usage examples of joker.

The jokers, who from their dress were hobbledehoy yeomen or small squires, were thus encouraged to continue, and, being apparently well on the way to drunkenness, were not disposed to consider risks.

Charon, heading out from the Rox toward the siren call of some joker in New York.

Through the windows I could see that all the Rox was the same way--a living, writhing carpet of jokers from end to end, right into the greasy waves of the bay.

All he knew was what the joker who looked like a clump of seaweed in an Orioles cap and Coors Light jacket and oozed into the record store to warn him the DEA were on their way had told him: If he thought he might need the sanctuary of the Rox, he ought to blow what roll he carried on a bag of groceries at some late-night bodega, go down to the river, fire up a flashlight, and think real hard about how bad he wanted to go there.

DozerDurg churned the earth of the Rox, driving inexorably toward the jokers, who screamed with rapture-blue lips, cowering and backing away from the mechanical horror until the water of New York Bay lapped at their heels.

He diverged far enough from the human somatotype to be considered a joker.

It was an ordinary stockfish, about three-quarters of a yard long, that some joker had hung on the line during the night.

This attack was commenced by the ladies, but it was continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the parson with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound, being one of those long-winded jokers who, though rather dull at starting game, are unrivalled for their talents in hunting it down.

Abul Aina was a philologist, but also a great joker, anecdote-teller, and poet.

Tachyon had told the authorities it was a mutant form, capable of reinfecting even stable aces and jokers.

The joker greeted Brennan cordially as Brennan approached, setting the butt of his long-handled squeegee on the floor and leaning on it as if it were a spear.

Even the decks of cards used at the blackjack and poker tables were specially printed, with the Twelve Apostles replacing the face cards, the Dove of the Holy Spirit replacing the aces, Jesus instead of the Joker, and the Fairchild Ministry logo on the back.

Funhouse, where jokers and nats and aces have enjoyed all the top joker cabaret acts for more than two decades.

Even here the ghettoes persist jokers tend to sit with jokers, nats with nats, aces with aces.

They want to get us out of town for a while-not just the jokers, the aces too.