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shazam
English
Etymology
Arguably coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???zæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Interjection
shazam
- Alternative spelling of shazaam
- 2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 91:
- My parents lived in the Last Naïf Age: the last ‘good war’, atoms for peace, and parental philosophy that said children should do and say exactly what we do and say, and Shazam! You'll be us.
- 2009, K. L. Denman, Me, Myself and Ike, Orca Book Publishers (?ISBN), page 185:
- So I brought you down the trail on the sled, put you in my car and, shazam, here we are.
- 2008, Tom Bissinger, Da Capo:Selected Writings 1967-2004: Selected Writings 1967-2004, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 91:
References
Anagrams
- hamzas
shazam From the web:
- what shazam stands for
- what shazam means
- what shazam character are you
- what's shazam's weakness
- what's shazam's powers
- what's shazam app
- what's shazam on snapchat
- shazam what happened to his mom
joker
English
Etymology
joke +? -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d???k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?o?k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
joker (plural jokers)
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A jester.
- Synonyms: court jester, fool, jester
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)
- Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.
- 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons (volume 218, page 858)
- Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]
- 1942, Billboard (volume 54, number 41, page 5)
- Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.
- 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting (page 12)
- The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.
- 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)
Related terms
- joke
See also
- ????, ????, ????
Translations
See also
See also
- Wikipedia article on jokers (jesters)
- Wikipedia article on the joker (playing card)
- Wikipedia article on the Joker in Batman
Anagrams
- jerko
Danish
Etymology
From English joker.
Noun
joker
- joker (playing card)
Declension
Further reading
- “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From English joker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jo?k?r/
- Rhymes: -o?k?r
Noun
joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)
- joker (playing card)
- any wild card or similar, even in non-card games
Derived terms
- voor joker staan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.k??/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?o.kœ?/, [d?o??.kœ?]
Noun
joker m (plural jokers)
- (card games) joker
- (computing) wildcard
- (on a game show) lifeline
- (Scrabble) blank tile
See also
Further reading
- “joker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Alternative forms
- d?oker
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???.k?r/
Noun
joker m anim
- (card games) joker
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
joker m (plural jokers)
- Alternative form of jóquer
See also
Romanian
Etymology
From French joker, English joker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??o.k?r/
Noun
joker m (plural jokeri)
- (card games) joker
Declension
joker From the web:
- what joker died
- what joker killed himself
- what joker actor died
- what joker is the big joker
- what joker are you
- what joker real name
- what joker has lost the most
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