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  • noun chiefly UK A personification of the general public, or of an average ordinary person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a hypothetical average man

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Examples

  • Joe Bloggs off the corner-shop and everybody else tweets him and he replies to everybody.

    QPR's sacking of Neil Warnock had been increasingly on the cards 2012

  • Which free market, you don't mean the massive military industrial complex do you, or do you mean that market where the spivs in London flood the country with money which massively inflates house prices then demand more from the Government to settle bad gambling debts, meanwhile Joe Bloggs loses everything, his job, his house and his life savings.

    The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash 2011

  • That way Foreign Language Branch Member Joe Bloggs could place the films from Australia, Germany and Israel on his ballot, but also place Summer Hours and The Maid on there.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Glenn Dunks 2010

  • That way Foreign Language Branch Member Joe Bloggs could place the films from Australia, Germany and Israel on his ballot, but also place Summer Hours and The Maid on there.

    Foreign Language Film: A Solution? Glenn Dunks 2010

  • The logic being, I suppose, that Joe Bloggs would be more willing to take a risk on buying a Sunyo if he could amass an extensive film library as part of the deal.

    Big Beach Sports 2 2010

  • As an outsider Joe Bloggs member, Liberal Youth appears to be run be people ‘playing’ politics whilst being totally hamstrung by execs, committees & antiquated decision making structures.

    What’s with da Yoof? Alix Mortimer 2009

  • All that matters is he passes on the meaning he assigns “literary” when he talks to Joe Bloggs Down the Street.

    War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009

  • The "ideal family" should be the one that is best for the individual, named, child; not some statistical Joe Bloggs, and we should be making efforts to protect children from bad parenting without rose tinted glasses to a bygone age or the politically correct farce we have now.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Thom, describing any organisation such as the Family Education Trust, Care, as Joe Bloggs, speaks of prejudice, discrimination and gross ignorance.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Why professional intellectuals routinely ignore why Joe Bloggs might get a little angsty about "separate sovreigns" indeed highlights their lack of suitability for high public office. (which Williams indubitably holds)

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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