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

  • (..) certificate to this company... Why, I got the key out of this... Out of the mouth of this wooden clown. Never mind. I can't take this. There's no signal. What is the going rate for a trapped-in-elevator adventure? (..)
    1997 The Game
  • (..) by several high tech companies but dipped again reacting to reports that Nicholas Van Orton had sneezed. Are you gonna spend the rest of the evening prying at that clown's mouth? I... I don't... It's frustrating for me if you don't pay attention. What is this? This is your game, Nicholas, (..)
    1997 The Game