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clown
noun- a fool, an incompetent person US, 1898
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake. One of them regular army clowns. — M*A*S*H, 1970
- My voice shook, talking with this clown was doing me a lot of good. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, 1985
- Least of all the pushy broad, the smart Jew, and the Harvard clown. — A Few Good Men, 1992
- in carnival usage, a local police officer US, 1929
- — J.E. Lighter, The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, p. 439, 1994
- a railway pointsman or yard brakeman US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 261, 1946
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 34, 1977
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