Sloppy Joe

Sloppy Joe

noun
1.
a sandwich of ground beef cooked in a spicy tomato or barbecue sauce and usually served on a bun.
2.
a baggy, overlarge sweater originally worn by girls and young women in the 1940s.
3.
a man or youth whose appearance is habitually slovenly.
Also, sloppy Joe, sloppy joe (for defs. 1, 2).


Origin:
1935–40

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Sloppy Joe's

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sloppy joe (dʒəʊ)
 
n
informal a long baggy thin sweater

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