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John Doe

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Noun

1. joe bloggs, joe blow, john doe, man in the street

a hypothetical average man

2. john doe

an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

John Doe

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an unknown or unidentified male or female person
noun
Doe

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John Doe

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Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

John Doe

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n.
1. Used as a name in legal proceedings to designate an unknown man or boy or to protect the identity of a known man or boy.
2. An average or ordinary man.

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