2008 September 18, Ian Rankin,The Hanging Garden: The #1 bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
Rebus decided to use theirjoker. 'Mr Lintz made a phone call to this office. He was talking for over twenty minutes.'
2012 January 1, Simon Packham,Silenced, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.,→ISBN:
Tash Wilson played her'joker' , pulling her chair so close our legs were almost touching. 'Hey, Chris, do you want to go out sometime? All you've got to do is say the word.'
2016 October 17, Dipo Adesida,My French Teacher Had an Igbo Accent: An Inspiring Collection of Memories, Memoirs and Mischiefs, Partridge Africa,→ISBN:
The director made me understand that my bubble of stardom could burst just as soon as it had been inflated if I didn't watch my attitude. Then he used hisjoker. I had an understudy so if I messed up or tried to create a scene, I would be summarily replaced.
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 fromjokers.
1939, Canadian Parliament,Official Report of Debates, House of Commons, volume218, page858:
Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is ajoker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent,[…]
1942,Billboard, volume54, number41, page 5:
Stone claimed that there was aJoker 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, page12:
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.
(military) A friendlyunit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
1998,APP-6A: Military Symbols for Land-Based Systems, page 9:
Joker - A friendly track or contact acting as a "suspect" track for exercise purposes only. (STANAG 1241)
The option, in apub quiz, of selecting one particularround in which one'steam will score double points.
We used ourjoker as soon as the topic of sports was announced, since we are sport experts.
The problem is that it would be difficult to use ajoker offensively since you could never know how it was going to move, meaning it’d be most useful setting it up for potential queen/rook captures to disincentivize your opponent from moving those pieces.
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