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Joe Blake

British  

noun

  1. slang:rhyming a snake

  2. the DT's

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A young couple is drawn into a plot to distribute it, and Joe Blake begins a mysterious cross-country trip for the resistance.

From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2015

"My father told me what it was like before the war," says fresh-faced rebel Joe Blake, who's found one of Nazi-occupied New York's small pockets of resistance, in the opening scene.

From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2015

The barber was there courtesy of Captain Douglas, who had picked him up and delivered him to Spindrift after a call from Joe Blake.

From The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine

And a Colonel of horse of our friend Billy Lake, And Wallincourt a Lord,—t'other day but Joe Blake, With his bag full of guineas so bright.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Preparations for taking the theatrical company back East were made; but Joe, Blake and Mr. Duncan were uncertain about accompanying them.

From The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast by Victor [pseud.] Appleton

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