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noun
1.
(sometimes lowercase) Informal. fellow; guy: the average Joe who works for a living.
2.
Informal. a 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.
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World English Dictionary
| jo or joe1 (dʒəʊ) | |
| —n , pl joes | |
| a Scot word for sweetheart | |
| [C16: alteration of | |
| joe or joe1 | |
| —n | |
| [C16: alteration of | |
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Word Origin & History
joe
"coffee," 1941, of unknown origin. Meaning "generic fellow, man" is from 1846, from the pet-form of Joseph (q.v.). Joe college "typical college man" is from 1932. Joe Blow "average fellow" is U.S. military slang, first recorded 1941.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary
joe definition
jargon, securityA computer account whose user name and password are the same. Joes are considered harmful, as are any passwords which are easy to guess.
(1995-06-21)
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