kidders

noun

plural of kidder
as in practical jokers

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  1. teasers
  2. buffoons
  3. clowns
  4. jokesters
Noun
  • One notable exception seems to be the illuminated dot from some of the teasers.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026
  • San Diego Comic Con has kicked off, and new teasers and trailers will not be locked away in the convention center halls.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of teasers
Noun
  • The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of buffoons
Noun
  • One morning during my stay, there were even clowns buzzing about—a thrill to receive a balloon poodle alongside my morning flat white.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
  • Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
    — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Definition of jokesters
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