I. noun
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Some clown cut in front of me on the freeway this morning and almost hit me.
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A cannibal I knew refused to eat clowns.
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Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant, and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown .
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Howie is a well-known writer and clown .
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Maguire, matter of fact, is much like the class clown who sits three bar stools away watching the game.
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Only two or three clowns dressed up and nothing much took place.
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Specimens of this anemone have been seen with as many two dozen clown anemonefish nestled among their tentacles.
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The twins, at almost eleven, were clowns, especially Shaw, who was beginning a career as the family subversive.
II. verb
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Stop clowning around and get back to work.
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But Garvey and Lucie had to clown more than before.
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Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman, which was his way of being sarcastic to me.
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He had no idea that people thought he was clowning.
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Others spend the majority of their time clowning.
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People riotously reel around here, fighting, fondling, tittering, clowning.
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They are clowning for the camera.