clown nose

clown nose (plural clown noses)

A clown wearing a clown nose

1. A fake nose, typically near spherical, bright red in color and sometimes capable of producing a honking sound when squeezed, commonly used by clowns and occasionally as a prop by people during parties.
2. A reddish-brown cancerous bulge in the area of the tip of the nose.
   • Giacomo Colletti, Fabiana Allevi, Laura Moneghini, and Marina Palvarini (2014-01-31), “Clown nose: a case of disfiguring nodular squamous cell carcinoma of the face”, in PubMed Central‎, DOI:10.1136/bcr-2013-200471, PMID 24488659: “The clown nose is characterised in the patient by a dome-shaped reddish nodular lesion with an incomplete central keratin-filled crater.”