Joe Six-Pack
noun
an average or typical man
Showing results for Joe Six-Pack.
Search instead for
mixed six-pack.
Jump To:
-
Joe Six-Pack
-
Joe Six-pack
Joe Six-packA lower-middle-class male. For example, I don't think opera will appeal to Joe Six-pack; he'd prefer a rock concert. This disparaging term, first recorded in 1977, conjures up the image of a man in undershirt and construction helmet who will down all of a six-pack (six cans or bottles of beer sold in a package) in an evening.
Joe Six-Pack
British
/ ˈsɪksˌpæk /
noun
Joe Six-pack
Idioms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“We need a voice of reason from the people, somebody who is connected to just normal, everyday Joe Six-Pack, hardworking Alaskan, and I feel that that is who I am,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
But it is far harder, on deadline, to offer serious analyses of those grievances than it is to pretend that Joe Six-Pack cares deeply about what is said at the Tony Awards.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
Not long after the onset of the West's deadening drought, officials here saw the enemy, and he was Joe Six-Pack.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2015
White Van Man is the Joe Six-Pack or Walmart Mom of U.K. politics, representative of a segment of the electorate mainstream parties are eager to court but find increasingly hard to reach.
From Time ● Nov. 21, 2014
In Iowa two weeks ago, the president became Joe Six-Pack, talking about beer at every stop.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2012
It wasn’t that culturally liberal, non-white voters were numerous enough to make Joe Six-pack irrelevant but rather that Joe Six-pack was willing to support a culturally liberal, non-white candidate.
From Fox News ● Nov. 2, 2018
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
