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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal Brewed coffee.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fourpenny-piece. Also joey.
  2. n. [capitalized] An old jest: same as Joe Miller.
  3. n. A lobster too small to be sold legally—that is, one under ten inches in length.
  4. n. A Portuguese and Brazilian gold coin, worth from eight to nine dollars.
  5. n. A master; a superior.
  6. n. A sweetheart; a darling.

Wiktionary

  1. n. informal A male; a guy; a fellow.
  2. n. informal Coffee.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See johannes.

Etymologies

  1. A proposed etymology is as follows: Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his numerous reforms of the Navy was the abolition of the officers' wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard navy ships was coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as "a cup of Joe". However, further investigation by others at snopes.com showed that the name appeared before the general order by the Navy to ban the wine mess. (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for (old black) joe, military slang for coffee, from the title of a song by Stephen Foster. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Au
  2. Beau
  3. Bio
  4. Bo
  5. Bordeaux
  6. Boudreaux
  7. Bow
  8. Cloe
  9. Co
  10. Cousteau
  11. Crow
  12. Davao
  13. Defoe
  14. Flo
  15. Go
  16. Gogh
  17. Ho
  18. Jo
  19. Joh
  20. Loew
  21. Loewe
  22. Low
  23. Luo
  24. Marceau
  25. Margaux
  26. Mo
  27. Moe
  28. Monroe
  29. Munro
  30. No
  31. Noh
  32. O
  33. Pernod
  1. Peugeot
  2. Plough
  3. Po
  4. Poe
  5. Renault
  6. Roe
  7. Rousseau
  8. Rowe
  9. Snow
  10. So
  11. Stowe
  12. Thoreau
  13. Trudeau
  14. Truffaut
  15. Uno
  16. Wo
  17. aglow
  18. ago
  19. although
  20. apropos
  21. au
  22. aux
  23. barbeau
  24. beau
  25. beaux
  26. below
  27. bestow
  28. bio
  29. blow
  30. blowe
  31. bo
  32. boisseau
  33. bow
  1. bro
  2. celo
  3. chabot
  4. chateau
  5. chateaux
  6. chau
  7. cho
  8. clow
  9. co
  10. co.
  11. coe
  12. cro
  13. crow
  14. dau
  15. doe
  16. doh
  17. dough
  18. dunno
  19. eau
  20. eaux
  21. escrow
  22. ex-voto
  23. flo
  24. floe
  25. flow
  26. foe
  27. forego
  28. forgo
  29. fro
  30. gateau
  31. gau
  32. glow
  33. go
  1. goe
  2. gro
  3. grow
  4. growe
  5. hello
  6. ho
  7. hoe
  8. imo
  9. jo
  10. kayo
  11. know
  12. ko
  13. kowtow
  14. lambeau
  15. lo
  16. low
  17. luo
  18. mo
  19. moe
  20. mow
  21. no
  22. noh
  23. nouveau
  24. o
  25. o.
  26. oh
  27. outgrow
  28. overflow
  29. ow
  30. owe
  31. plateau
  32. plough
  33. po
  1. poh
  2. pro
  3. quo
  4. rho
  5. rideau
  6. roe
  7. rondeau
  8. rouleau
  9. row
  10. sew
  11. show
  12. sloe
  13. slow
  14. snow
  15. so
  16. so-so
  17. sow
  18. stow
  19. strow
  20. tableau
  21. tableaux
  22. taekwondo
  23. tallyho
  24. tarot
  25. tho
  26. though
  27. throw
  28. toe
  29. tow
  30. trow
  31. turbot
  32. undergo
  33. whoa
  1. wo
  2. woe
  3. yo
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  1. jo
  2. joey
  3. Stilwell
  4. joe
  5. johannes
  1. jest book
  2. green crab
  3. yankee clipper
  4. Hooker
  5. Frazier
  1. Louis
  2. DiMaggio
  3. Bird
  4. obscene
  5. Pass
  1. bitchery
  2. defund
  3. Cannon
  4. Orton
  5. Turner
  1. Clark
  2. Jackson
  3. chestnut
  4. gravelroot
  5. bracelet-wood

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  • lea What the heck is going on here? You almost made me spill my joe! - Third Rock From The Sun Mar 12, 2009

  • yarb Citation on doubloon (in the sense of a type of coin). Jul 29, 2008

  • chained_bear Also a shortened version of johannes (as in the coin). Usage on mohur. Mar 16, 2008

  • skipvia Hey Joe by the Leaves, Love, Jimi Hendrix, and just about everyone else. Feb 9, 2008

  • chained_bear "Haul Away Joe" is a pretty famous sea shanty. Feb 9, 2008

  • treeseed An appaloosa horse named Joe was the mount of The Virginian played by James Drury on the TV series The Virginian. Some people have heard this as "Jody" but Drury is on record as saying the horse was named Joe. More than one appaloosa horse played this part. Feb 1, 2008

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