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joe1
( jō),USA pronunciation n. [Scot.]
joe2 ( jō),USA pronunciation n. [Slang.]
Joe ( jō),USA pronunciation n.
- Scottish Termsjo.
joe2 ( jō),USA pronunciation n. [Slang.]
- Scottish Termscoffee.
- of uncertain origin, originally 1840–50
Joe ( jō),USA pronunciation n.
- Informal Terms(sometimes l.c.) fellow;
guy:the average Joe who works for a living. - Informal Termsa personification of a typical, often unprepossessing representative of an occupation, personality trait, state of being, etc., that is expressed, sometimes metonymically, as a mock surname:Joe Lunchbucket working hard at some factory and paying his taxes year after year; political con artists relying on the gullibility of Joe Schmo.
- a male given name, form of Joseph.
'Joe' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Calzaghe
- Davis
- DiMaggio
- Frazier
- Jackson
- Joe Blake
- Joe Bloggs
- joe job
- Joe Public
- joes
- Joe Six-Pack
- Lawson
- Montana
- neither
- Nichols
- Orton
- Stilwell
- Walcott
- a.k.a.
- bunk
- cannon
- Clark
- Cudjo
- dab
- GI Joe
- good Joe
- harness
- hill
- Holy Joe
- jo
- Joe Blow
- Joe College
- Joe Doakes
- Joe Miller
- joe-pye weed
- Joe Sixpack
- joey
- little Joe
- louis
- miller
- Pickwickian syndrome
- Poor Joe
- purple boneset
- respectively
- write-off
- Sloppy Joe
- Sloppy Joe's
- spotted joe-pye weed
- St. Joe