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become the Joker

verb

Etymology

From a fake screenshot of the 2019 movie Joker posted by Twitter user @internethippo, in which the eponymous character says "I can't believe mother threw away my Nintendo. I'm going to become the Joker."

Definitions

  1. To have a breakdown

    To have a breakdown; especially to be driven to violence by something maddening.

    • Listen, Shepard’s story is great, but it’s finished. Please. Don’t make me become The Joker.
    • Doesn’t it feel like everyone is claiming to become The Joker these days? If you still want to have a highly-characterised breakdown whilst still being original about it, here are some alternatives.
    • “I don’t mean to overreact, but if anything happens to Dogmeat I’m going to become the Joker,” said one Reddit user while on X, some fans have promised to “riot” if Dogmeat gets hurt in the show.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for become the Joker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA