LekhoriLekhoriA diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
"With a name like Joe," Joe always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying 'Joe's Bar and Grill'."
Alternative form of Jo: a diminutive of various female given names.
Short form (diminutive form) of various names beginning with Jo..., particularly the male names Joseph and, less often, Joel, Josiah and Josias. The spelling Jo is used more often for diminutives of s...
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A spy, especially a double agent.
Name me a joe in a bad country ... who doesn't fall for a pretty face if she's on his side against the world.
Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”).
I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
Coffee.
In olden times, you'd wander down to Mom's Cafe for a bite to eat and a cup of joe, and you would feel right at home.
Alternative form of jo (“a darling or sweetheart”).
1836 Joanna Baillie The Phantom, Act 2. Provost, to a maidservant. I fear, my joe, the good that I can do him, Or ev'n the minister, if he were here, Would be but little.