Honest John


noun
  1. Informal.

    • an honest, sincere man.

    • a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived.

  2. a surface-to-surface, single-stage U.S. artillery rocket.

Origin of Honest John

1
First recorded in 1930–35

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