Joe Six-Pack

Joe Six-Pack

An average person, especially a man and typically of the working class. A somewhat condescending allusion to the drinking preferences of the working class. My brother's just your typical guy, a real Joe Six-Pack—you can find him watching a sporting event in a bar after work pretty much any night of the week. If we let Joe Six-Pack decide the policies in our country, we'd still be stuck in the 1800s.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Joe Six-pack

A lower-middle-class male. For example, I don't think opera will appeal to Joe Six-pack; he'd prefer a rock concert. This disparaging term, first recorded in 1977, conjures up the image of a man in undershirt and construction helmet who will down all of a six-pack (six cans or bottles of beer sold in a package) in an evening.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

Joe Six-pack

n. the average guy who sits around drinking beer by the six-pack. Joe Six-pack likes that kind of television program.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

Joe Six-Pack

A working-class male. The six-pack in this somewhat derogatory name refers to a half-dozen bottles or cans of beer that are packaged together, to be bought as a unit, and supposedly a workingman’s beverage of choice. Six-pack came into use in the early 1950s, and Joe Six-Pack was first recorded in 1970 and quickly proliferated. Reporter Martin F. Nolan used it in an article about Joe Moakley’s political campaign against Louise Day Hicks for Congress: “Moakley plans to make Mrs. Hicks the major issue in the campaign, talking about issues in the media and shouting in Joe Six-Pack’s ear to wake up and face the unsimplistic facts of life (Boston Globe, August 28, 1970). The Globe headline was “After the Soul of Joe Six-Pack.” See also John Doe.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • Joe Sixpack
  • speak with a plum in (one's) mouth
  • OK yah
  • cut class
  • in a class by (oneself)
  • class (someone or something) with (someone or something)
  • class with
  • classes
  • frog slicing
  • class
References in periodicals archive
This fall, Philadelphia Daily News beer columnist Don Russell (nicknamed "Joe Six-Pack") will celebrate the release of his second book, Christmas Beers: The Cheeriest, Tastiest and Most Unusual Holiday Brews (Universe, 2008).
Philadelphia's Joe Six-Pack releases new book on Christmas beer
What about Joe Six-Pack? Where do New York's red-blooded meat-and-potatoes men go for an old-fashioned skin show now that Rudy's closed down all the old sex clubs?
Fun City Confidential
No one is really going to go out and rent a priest, Haggett said; the Rent a Priest name is a "marketing ploy." She said she is in the business of marketing other people's work, and she knows how to reach "Joe Six-pack."
Need a sacrament? Call Rent a Priest
"It's time that normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it, but it's motivation ...
Sarah Palin can't escape the Fey factor
Birnbaum deserves special commendation for suffering through such events as a press conference of the Coalition Against Regressive Taxation, a gang of brewers, distillers, cigarette makers, and trucking companies all bravely fighting excise taxes in the name of Joe Six-Pack.
The Lobbyists
"Don't have Joe six-pack paying for the abusers," Romain said.
Beer tax proposal resurfaces in Oregon
Pennsylvania, he notes, isn't home to Joe Six-pack; it's Joe 18-Pounds who lives here.
Penn. beer distributors worried about taxes
Pat Higgins, president of the Wyoming Beer Distributors Association, said "Joe Six-Pack," the working man, is "the guy who's going to pay for it"
Wyoming House rejects 400% beer tax boost
"It will put more tax on the common man, Joe Six-Pack," he said.
Wyoming may boost beer tax
Yet, Joe Six-Pack still has to pay a tax on beer," English said.
Connecticut reps on board for excise tax rollback
"If Congress can repeal the estate tax for billionaires, then Congress can roll back the beer tax for Joe Six-Pack," said Kleczka, whose state is home to Miller Brewing.
Beer tax roll-back getting national notice
It was not as if the Getty called in a dozen Joe Six-Packs from the street; no, it listened with anguish to people who had spent their professional lives learning to tell the difference between real and fake.
Blink. Think. Blank. Bunk. Solid snap judgements are deeply grounded
Well, now's the time to write your legislators, informing 'em that we don't need any more taxes on wine or spirits; apparently, beer would not get whacked with more taxes, as it's the "Joe Six-Packs" who'd bear the brunt of the sucker.
Wise and otherwise
"There are 80 million 'Joe Six-packs' out there who drink beer, the beverage of moderation," said Heurich.
Effort is ongoing to save old Heurich House in D.C