as in little guys
an average or ordinary man
the political ads airing during the football game were an obvious attempt to gain the votes of the Joe Six-Packs in the audience
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Noun
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Lumet — himself a serious theater creature who shared an ethical bent with the twentieth century’s great American playwrights — specialized in movies about little guys’ going up against the system.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026 -
Red buckeye and coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) are two of the major native feeder plants for these little guys to follow when the plants bloom progressively from the South to the North when temperatures start to rise.—
Campbell Vaughn,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Boarding school has been making Muck boys into ugly, priggish little men for generations.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The union and workers agreed to return to work after the company agreed to return for two days of face-to-face contract negotiations beginning April 9.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Seven months later, just eleven kilometres from the coral garden, a blowout on BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caused an explosion that killed eleven workers and sent oil gushing up from the seafloor.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The slip-on boasts a comfy EVA footbed, grippy lugs, and a water-resistant upper.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside,
26 Mar. 2026
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Rendered entirely in black, the shoe gets a thick outsole with lugs.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Joe Six-Packs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Joe%20Six-Packs. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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