| 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. |
| sloppy joe or sloppy Joe n. A bun filled or covered with ground beef cooked in a spicy tomato sauce. |