joe

A 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'."

With Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decision to end his campaign on Wednesday, it’s now official: Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the Democratic presidential nominee this fall.

Alternative form of Jo: a diminutive of various female given names.

A surname.

A male; a guy; a fellow.

I'm just an ordinary Joe.

Synonym of Joe Miller (“an old joke”).

O what "a Joe," — what an "old Joe!" — / A very "old Joe!" — / Old Joe Miller made the joke before, / But nothing tells better that ^([sic]) a good old Joe!

A male; a guy; a fellow.

I'm just an ordinary joe.

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.

Soviet troops were permitted to enter the American sector, where they could easily capture and torture an agent to confirm the existence of a Joe house, then cripple American espionage efforts by kidnapping a nest of spies in one fell swoop.

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.

Guineas, joes, half joes, doubloons, and pistoles of various origin constituted the gold currency, while the silver was mostly the Spanish American dollar and its fractions: the half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth, with the pistareen and half pistareen.