JOE


Meaning of JOE in English

/joh/ , n.

1. ( sometimes l.c. ) 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.

3. a male given name, form of Joseph .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .