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  • proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Joe or Joseph.

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Examples

  • Backed in a corner they gaped at Joey hopping around and —     Joey gaped back!

    Mescaline Blues 2010

  • Sometime prior to the autumn of '1988, Raymond Welle began treating joey Franklin in psychotherapy after an incident where Joey was accused of voyeurism in a girls' bathroom at his middle school.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • Charlie said to joey that she shouldn't be someone that shes not, Joey says you can talk and goes to get her things.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • Charlie said to joey that she shouldn't be someone that shes not, Joey says you can talk and goes to get her things. lectra (652 posts) on April 7, 2009 - 10: 42am. oscartg (113 posts) on April 7, 2009 - 12: 47pm.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • Charlie said to joey that she shouldn't be someone that shes not, Joey says you can talk and goes to get her things.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • ABC Family: 'Melissa & Joey'* -- Starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey

    TV Squad 2010

  • Followers of the soulful house sound have always awarded their scene's stateside contributors waves of adoration, sometimes at the expense of noticing talent on their own doorstep UK producer/DJ Dave Lee even created the alias Joey Negro to play to such snobbery and lend authenticity to his earliest releases.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • I wonder how hard Joey is going to smack Beck back in the green room?

    Think Progress » Glenn Beck welcomes Scott Brown to Washington: ‘This one could end with a dead intern.’ 2010

  • Victor stumbles on the remnants of a drug ring, decades old, and that leads to a sitting Supreme Court justice who might be involved in Joey's murder and another murder that happened twenty years before.

    William Lashner on Past Due: An interrogation 2010

  • Kimberly Blue, who is astonishingly beautiful and astonishingly young and yet is already a vice president at some shady corporation that, for some strange reason, is also keenly interested in Joey Cheap's murder.

    William Lashner on Past Due: An interrogation 2010

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