clownnoun [ C ]
uk/klaʊn/us/klaʊn/A2 an entertainer who wears funny clothes, has a painted face, and makes people laugh by performing tricks and behaving in a silly way
someone who behaves in a silly way, often intentionally
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Carnival, fairground & circus
- acrobatics
- amusement arcade
- amusement park
- big dipper
- big top
- big wheel
- coconut shy
- contortionist
- custard pie
- Dodgem (car)
- fairground
- Ferris wheel
- Indian club
- juggle
- juggler
- merry-go-round
- midway
- Punch and Judy show
- tame
- unicycle
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Entertainers in general
Stupid and silly people
clownverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/klaʊn/us/klaʊn/to act stupidly, often to make other people laugh:
Left alone, the class threw books, pulled faces, and generally clowned around.
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Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- mess around
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss
- piss (sb) about/around
- spectacle
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