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Joe Average
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English
Noun
Joe Average
en idiomatic A hypothetical average or generic individual; the common man (or person, by extension).
en average Joe regular Joe Joe Public John Q. Public man on the street man in the street man on the Clapham omnibus
en Joe Bloggs Joe Sixpack J. Random User
en Write the instructions so that any Joe Average can understand them.
Related terms
en G.I. Joe
Translations
hypothetical average or generic individual
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 普通人 pou2 tung1 jan4
Hokkien: nan-hbl 普通人 phó͘-thong-lâng
Mandarin: cmn 普通人 pǔtōngrén
Dutch: nl Jan Modaal m, nl Jan met de pet m
Finnish: fi Pihtiputaan mummo, fi Matti Meikäläinen
French: fr Français moyen m
German: de Ottonormalverbraucher m
Irish: ga Seán Ó Rudaí m, ga Mac Uí Rudaí m
Italian: it Pinco Pallino m
Japanese: ja 普通人 ふつうじん, futsū jin, ja 山田 太郎 Yamada Tarō
Lithuanian: lt Vardenis Pavardenis m
Polish: pl Jan Kowalski m-pr
Portuguese: pt Jão m
Spanish: es Juan Pérez m
Swedish: sv medelsvensson c, sv medelmåtta c
See also
en everyman Jane Average,average Jane John Doe,Jane Doe,Richard Roe,Jane Roe just folks lay figure<id:unimportant person or character> layperson pub test regular folk,regular folks Tom, Dick or Harry
Anagrams
en aaeeegjorv average Joe average joe
en placeholder terms
en Personifications