What's the difference between joker and poker?

Joker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes jokes or jests.
  • (n.) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (2) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.
  • (3) They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker – it’s like Ronnie Reagan.
  • (4) When I looked at the four people we had, Bruno is the joker, Craig is the Simon Cowell of the show and Len is the head judge.
  • (5) You’re probably the kind of ‘joker’ who spikes the water cooler with WKD and chews on biros before flashing a blue-toothed smile.
  • (6) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
  • (7) Nobody thought Jack Nicholson’s Joker could be bettered until they saw Heath Ledger’s spikier take in The Dark Knight.
  • (8) Before the internet, some joker printed up hundreds of (faked) nude pictures of Jessie Matthews and dropped them on Dresden from a bomber!
  • (9) One of these jokers just swallowed a pair of nail clippers.
  • (10) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
  • (11) And so, just when it looked like events were spiralling out of his control, Farage pulled out his joker – the old “Foreigners with Aids are making British people die of cancer” line.
  • (12) We have aimed towards the low end of the range given the fall in oil over the past six months, but that component is typically the joker in the pack."
  • (13) He's unmissable because he's still the sharpest pitch-black joker in the pack.
  • (14) Griffin on the panellists Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic: "The joker in the pack; knows how to look after herself and may be more of a handful than the others."
  • (15) At one stage he bred budgerigars, and while travelling back on the train from a fixture against Birmingham City, White and Jones, the two practical jokers in the team, stole uniforms from two waiters in the dining car and appeared in front of him with a lidded serving salver.
  • (16) Brad Dourif, not Jack Nicholson , was Tim Burton's first choice to play The Joker in 1989's Batman, according to the star of Lord of the Rings and the Child's Play movies.
  • (17) True Blood star Robert Kazinsky wrote : "OOOOOOOOOOOOH Matt Damon as the new joker?
  • (18) In my version, the man who opts for the role of joker in the male group is not looking for power but for acceptance; the other roles in the group are not accessible to him, perhaps because he is weaker or poorer or less imposing than his peers.
  • (19) Speaking at a Q&A to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original 1988 Child's Play horror flick, Dourif revealed that studio Warner Bros scuppered his chances to play The Joker despite Burton's efforts.
  • (20) Even a faint imprint of Ali had left its mark, but I could not reconcile all the versions of the man: the fighter, the joker, the magician, the religious disciple and preacher, the amiable conman.

Poker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pokes.
  • (n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
  • (n.) A poking-stick.
  • (n.) The poachard.
  • (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
  • (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
  • (2) I supported myself (paying rent and the MA health insurance mandate) by playing online and live poker, and collecting unemployment insurance benefits while sending out 15-20 resumes a week.
  • (3) It is too important to play the cards close-to-your-chest poker games that marked diplomacy of the 20th century."
  • (4) Or reflect on the supposed aces Britain is confidently looking forward to playing in the upcoming game of Brexit poker.
  • (5) "I'm not interested really in that sort of poker game, but, you know, the position hasn't changed.
  • (6) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
  • (7) Political donations were in the spotlight again this week when Fairfax Media reported that the Menzies 200 club, a fundraising organisation for the defence minister, Kevin Andrews, received money from the gambling lobby while he was in charge of formulating the Coalition’s response to poker machines as social services spokesman before the 2013 federal election.
  • (8) There are three simple ways of sorting out the current self-interested poker game between the political parties and the media.
  • (9) "Only two of us are showbiz, only me and Ben Ward [another director], so that's one-third of the board [the writer and the International Federation of Poker president, Anthony Holden, is another patron, as, to declare an interest, is this correspondent].
  • (10) The first evening we find ourselves playing poker with a couple of Aussies, a girl from Leicestershire and a South African.
  • (11) Despite not looking like a typical activist – he is the son of a wealthy shopping magnate – Bendat has waged a lengthy campaign against ALH, a subsidiary of supermarket giant Woolworths, which operates nearly 300 venues across Australia, containing 12,000 poker machines – more than the top five Las Vegas casinos combined.
  • (12) You certainly wouldn't want to play poker against him."
  • (13) Asked if she has four fingers, like her namesake, a poker-faced colleague replied: "We don't know.
  • (14) He said when you give someone the job of manager, you are basically giving them the right to play poker on your behalf.
  • (15) Female solidarity, in which womanhood alone is the high ace in victimhood poker, is often seen as the most important thing.
  • (16) At a sponsor's event for 888 Poker, he was then asked if there was a clause in his contract that allows him to leave for Madrid or Barcelona .
  • (17) The Greek politician’s threat of default now raises the game of poker a notch further.
  • (18) In the weeks leading up to the meeting, even as Yellen has maintained her cautious poker face, a number of other Fed officials have voiced bullish opinions that a second hike might come sooner rather than later.
  • (19) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
  • (20) The resort features more than 92,000 sq ft (8,500 sq metres) of gaming space including 1,900 slot machines, 64 table games, 14 poker tables and a race and sports book.