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Joe Bloggs

British  
/ blɒɡz /

noun

  1. US, Canadian, and Austral equivalent: Joe Blowslang an average or typical man See also Joe Six-Pack

"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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You may see that some candidates have fractions of votes next to their name, for example Joe Bloggs could win 20,500.1 votes.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

"If this was Joe Bloggs with no previous convictions, might they say that was a bad thing to do but not a criminal thing to do?" she asked.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2019

Time to dig out the Joe Bloggs casualwear.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2013

Surely the clinical expertise of a Robert Jay QC is preferable to the waffling of an inexperienced Joe Bloggs MP.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2012

A representative midrange SAT question is answerable by most bright students, eminently flunkable by slow ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs.

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