Be close to making a din about some joker (6)
I believe the answer is:
adjoin
'be close' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'making a din about some joker' is the wordplay.
'making' is an anagram indicator.
'some' says to take the initial letters.
'joker' becomes 'join' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The first letters of 'din about' is 'da'.
'da' with letters rearranged gives 'ad'.
'ad'+'join'='ADJOIN'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adjoin that I've seen before include "Butt up against" , "Abut, border" , "Be next to, say building" , "Lie adjacent to another" , "20 down" .)