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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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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
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

jokerization 

The act of drawing dark black circles around the eyes and a red smile on any picture, in commemoration of Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight.
The icons of commentors on ONTD are often jokerized, a result of jokerization.
jokerization by araff August 19, 2008

jokering 

To laugh even when it isn't funny; also, to laugh when no one else gets your joke....
Bob sure laughs at his own jokes a lot...
yeah, he's 'jokering' it
jokering by Tfurth July 31, 2018
having an unresistable urge to try and imitate Heath Ledger's Joker after watching the Dark Knight
Guy #1:"A little fight in ya, i like that"

Guy #2:"Dude, you got a bad case of Jokeritis"
Jokeritis by themagicman October 9, 2008
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fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010
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Take the big pirogue, I saw a huge swamp dog out there earlier.
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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.
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Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
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