joes
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of joes
short for the Joe Blakes
Example Sentences
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The providers have passed those fees on to average TV-watching joes.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025
He plans to match 2015 Braedyn, a cabernet sauvignon blend, with Lee’s starter of meatballs and sloppy joes.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023
It's a dessert you make for people you love and feel comfortable around, perhaps to cap off a hearty chili or some slider sloppy joes.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023
She misses cooking sloppy joes for her six grandchildren.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2021
I might have been sick of mangled meat loaf and puked-up sloppy joes, but Dad’s guilt was not the way I wanted to get edible food back in my life.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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