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Joe Public noun an average citizen; the regular man on the street US, 1942 Originally theatrical of an audience member; gently derogatory.- Their jazz was only a musical version of the hard-cutting broadsides that two foxy studs named Mencken and Nathan were beginning to shoot at Joe Public in the pages of The American Mercury[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 103, 1946
- [T]hey chose us because they’re not Joe fucking Public. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 108, 2002
- [Y]our friendly copper would be face-to-face with Joe Public. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 71, 2002
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