cosmic joker

English

Etymology

A term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.

Noun

cosmic joker (plural cosmic jokers)

1. A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.

See also

• resistentialism
• trickster