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good Joe

American  

noun

Informal.
  1. a warm-hearted, good-natured person.


Etymology

Origin of good Joe

First recorded in 1940–45


Example Sentences

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He’s a good Joe and looks a lot like PSC, heh, heh.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2017

The surprise ability of Smith — “Nobody knew how good Joe was going to be,” Simpkins said — made them formidable.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2015

"He is virtually blind from cataracts, has no sense of smell - but his hearing is good," Joe tells me.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2014

She is mildly mystified by the pure love that good Joe Gotten offers her.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Mayor Amalfi is a good Joe and does not want anything in the papers until a real strike comes along, but the word gets out anyhow, as it always does."

From Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

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