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Defacing your own pictures to look like the Joker from the Batman movie The Dark Knight.



Here are the steps to jokerization:

1. Find a good picture of yourself
2. Copy and paste it into Paint
3. Using the pencil or paintbrush tool, blacken your eyes
4. Using the aforementioned tools, switch to the color red and draw a big smile across your lips
5. Writing "WHY SO SERIOUS" on the picture is optional

Ta-da! Jokerization!
In response to The Dark Knight, many people have jokerized their pictures and put them up on Facebook.
Jokerize by Backyard Betty August 16, 2008
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JokerStars 

Once known as POKERSTARS "the largest online card room in the world" JokerStars has now taken over the once reputable site. Players all over the world should beware of bad beats, donkey players with enormous chip stacks, and the banning of chat privileges during online play or banter.
WTF...I just got my pocket Ace's cracked by 7-2 offsuit...

That's JokerStars for you...

Time to make another online deposit...

HOLLER!!!!
JokerStars by dznuts619sdc March 1, 2009

Jokerization 

To photoshop pictures of celebrities, politicians, or other public figures to display face paint similar to that of the Joker.
Did you see that hilarious .gif with the jokerization of Tyra Banks?
Jokerization by O.N.T.D. August 12, 2008

JokerStars 

Nickname for the popular poker website PokerStars.

The name comes from the masses of fairly good poker players that get bad beats by donks or n00bs.
Guy#1. I got dealt pocket aces and moved all in.
Guy#2. Yeah?
Guy#1. Yeah. 3 people called me, one had kings, one had queens, the other had 2's.
Guy#2. Wow, guess you won a big pot.
Guy#1. Shit no! Flop came Ace King Queen, we all hit trips, except the last guy, who was practically drawing dead. Pot was as good as mine, turn card was a 2 and and river was a 2 to give the n00b quad deuces.
Guy#2. You were obviously playing on JokerStars dawg!
JokerStars by Beeth October 17, 2007
Amazing talented pro gamer who plays Minecraft everyday
Mafiee: "Omg it's JokeHit they are so good
JokeHit by JackHit September 18, 2020
having an unresistable urge to try and imitate Heath Ledger's Joker after watching the Dark Knight
Guy #1:"Got a little fight in ya, i like that"

Guy #2:"Dude, you got a bad case of Jokeritis"
jokeritis by themagicman August 16, 2008
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fauxstalgia 

Faux nostalgia. Faking old things in an attempt to recapture the feeling of times gone past, especially of technology that has passed.
Hipstamatic pictures, just like the vinyl-static added to digital recordings, is prime fauxstalgia
fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010
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pajama casual 

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.
We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.
pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020
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The recent boom in consumer spending on entertainment and experiences with a high demand running up the cost of enjoying of those experiences.
I’m trying to go to this Taylor Swift concert but the funflation has made it so impossible for me to afford tickets.
funflation by Dfree523 November 17, 2023
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Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
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Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
Throat Sweats by TacoFings420 April 23, 2024
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Person 1: Did u watch ** last nite?
Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
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