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joe

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joe  (j)
n. Informal
Brewed coffee.

[Short for (old black) joe, military slang for coffee, from the title of a song by Stephen Foster.]


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Joe was to become capable very soon of turning out pictures that old gentlemen with thin side-whiskers and thick pocketbooks would sandbag one another in his studio for the privilege of buying.
His name was Joe Welling, and his fa- ther had been a man of some dignity in the commu- nity, a lawyer, and a member of the state legislature at Columbus.
My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an' I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman.
 
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