clown

Definition

  • noun: someone who performs in a circus, who wears funny clothes and makeup, and who tries to make people laugh
  • noun: a rude ill-bred person
  • verb: to act like a clown
  • verb: to act as or like a clown
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: farmer, boor

Examples

  • His classmates remember him as 'the class clown'. [=a student who tried to make other students laugh]

  • a rodeo 'clown' [=a person in a rodeo who dresses like a circus clown]

  • He was always 'playing the clown'. [=trying to make people laugh]

Movie quotes

  • (..) Boring! Do you sell any assault rifles? Oh, wait. I got it. Humor. Right? I took a feminist clown workshop once. Help! Help! I'm trapped under a glass ceiling! What the fuck? I wasn't the best student, but... (..)
    2012 The Dictator