"average Joe" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more average Joe [comparative], most average Joe [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} average Joe (comparative more average Joe, superlative most average Joe)
  1. Hypothetically average or generic individual. Categories (topical): People Translations (typical average person): 白丁 (báidīng) [slang] (Chinese Mandarin), Monsieur Toulemonde (French), Madame Toulemonde (French), le Français moyen (French), Otto Normalverbraucher [masculine] (German), Otto Normalbürger [masculine] (German), streiting [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), zwykły zjadacz chleba (Polish), przeciętny zjadacz chleba [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-average_Joe-en-adj-QpwbGM7g Disambiguation of People: 62 38

Noun

Forms: average Joes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} average Joe (plural average Joes)
  1. (US, informal) Alternative form of Joe Average (“typical average person”) Tags: US, alt-of, alternative, informal Alternative form of: Joe Average (extra: typical average person)
    Sense id: en-average_Joe-en-noun-6NfhPkrh Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Wikipedia with redundant first parameter Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 95 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 94 Disambiguation of Wikipedia with redundant first parameter: 15 85

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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