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Definition of jo
joes
chiefly Scotland
: sweetheart, dear —often used in addressing a person John Anderson, my jo John — Robert Burns
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Despite the simmering agita of her Rocky Mountain characters, this is fiction as comfort food, as goopy and pacifying as the sloppy joes Elena dishes out to the kids.
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In the cafeteria, where a recent day’s choices included sloppy Joes and broccoli cheese soup, walls divide eating areas so that pod-mates eat together and not with other pods.
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The project is funded by KickStarter, which lets regular Joes like you and me pledge money to cool projects like this.
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Origin and Etymology of jo
alteration of joy
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