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John Doe   /dʒɑn doʊ/   Listen
John Doe

noun
1.
A hypothetical average man.  Synonyms: Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, man in the street.
2.
An unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings.






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"John Doe" Quotes from Famous Books



... home of John Doe is located in a ten-acre tract on the northern side of the Seven-Mile Road, midway between Woodward Avenue and the Gratiot E. Turnpike. The material is reinforced concrete; the style, Colonial; the roof of green shingles; the size, 48 feet by ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller

... this simple little job?' and then he taps the poor victim for all he thinks the latter will stand, pockets the fee, and after his client has gone, hands a memorandum to a four-dollar-a-week clerk and says, 'Jones, fill up a contract form with that stuff and mail it to this John Doe person in Squashville.'" ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton

... in the slave of the Carolinas to the similarity in his condition and that of the mothers, wives, and daughters of the Empire State. The negro has no name. He is Cuffy Douglas, or Cuffy Brooks, just whose Cuffy he may chance to be. The woman has no name. She is Mrs. Richard Roe, or Mrs. John Doe, just whose Mrs. she may chance to be. Cuffy has no right to his earnings; he cannot buy or sell, nor make contracts, nor lay up anything that he can call his own. Mrs. Roe has no right to her earnings; she can neither ...
— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson

... always fascinate me. Usually some two or three of the envelops stuck into the cross-garterings have a certain newness and freshness. They seem sure they will yet be claimed. Why not? Why SHOULDN'T John Doe, Esq., or Mrs. Richard Roe turn up at any moment? I do not know. I can only say that nothing in the world seems to me more unlikely. Thus it is that these young bright envelops touch my heart even ...
— A. V. Laider • Max Beerbohm



Words linked to "John Doe" :   common man, common person, commoner, party, jurisprudence, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, law



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