What is "jokers"

Usage examples of "jokers".

Sno-cone vendors hawking through the crowd, police with sweat stains in the pits and front of shirts, Tachyon like a tiny redheaded, red-clad devil in the midst of a Dantesque scene as jokers doubled for demons.

Most seemed either to be tourists-Jack wondered whether this many people would actually be coming into the city for this particular holiday-or jokers themselves.

Jack noted wryly that the normals were obliged by the constraints of the stairs and escalator steps to associate much more closely with jokers than they might otherwise have wished.

He had no idea how many tourists and jokers from all parts of the world had flooded into Manhattan for Wild Card Day.

But today Jokertown and surrounding neighborhoods would be chaos, as the jokers took to the streets and thousands of tourists flowed into the city for the parades, street fairs, fireworks, and other celebrations that marked Wild Card Day.

It was mounted on a wooden platform, and three masked jokers were trying to push it through the crowds.

For a few months there he'd been involved with a political underground movement, trying to stop the wholesale slaughter of jokers in Vietnam.

The sound of hammers and staple guns echoed in the already sultry morning air, shouts of greeting and insult from the jokers busy setting up booths for the day-long party, the smell of cooking (good and bad) wafting over the exhaust-laden air.

And I can't conceive of a more unpopular and hideous minority than the jokers ever arising, you poor bastards.

The sidewalks were jammed with costumed jokers and rubbernecking nats.

Elsewhere a dozen jokers struggled up the curve of the shell, as if climbing some impossible mountain.

No, here the jokers could provide all the grotesquerie required with just their miserable bodies.

There were a number of politically active jokers who hadn't forgiven him yet.

When he does join in-which he's done for the past five years-he's accused of being a heartless parasite, living off the misery of the jokers he helped create.

PC thinks to grab some head lines from the jokers by rounding up the kids.