"cup of joe" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-cup of joe.ogg Forms: cups of joe [plural]
Etymology: Uncertain. * Possibly a shortening of "cup of jamoke", from java + mocha: this origin was given in a military officer's manual from 1931, around when the term first appeared. * Alternatively, perhaps a use of joe (“fellow, guy”), signifying that coffee was the drink of the common man. * Another theory suggests that US soldiers in World War I (1914-1918) referred to a serving of instant coffee made by the G. Washington Coffee Refining Company (founded in 1910) as a "cup of George", and that the common abbreviation of the name "George" ("Geo.") was then read as "Joe". * Another theory derives the term from Josephus Daniels (1862-1948), the Secretary of the U.S. Navy who abolished the officers' wine mess and thus made coffee the strongest drink available on ships. Snopes considers this unlikely because it says there is no attestation of the phrase "cup of joe" until 1930, 16 years after the 1914 order banning the wine mess. Confusingly, some other sources consider the Daniels derivation unlikely for the opposite reason: they say "cup of joe" predates the order. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-noun|cups of joe}} cup of joe (plural cups of joe)
  1. (chiefly US, idiomatic) A cup of coffee. Tags: US, idiomatic Categories (topical): Coffee Synonyms: cup of tea, predilection, cup o' joe, cuppa joe
    Sense id: en-cup_of_joe-en-noun--KavJemJ Disambiguation of Coffee: 91 9 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 61 39 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 63 37
  2. (figurative, idiomatic) One’s personal preference. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic Synonyms (preference): cup of coffee
    Sense id: en-cup_of_joe-en-noun-GZC8FmEm Disambiguation of 'preference': 21 79

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