john
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noun- 1.
(US, slang)A prostitute's client.
In-calls, where the john comes to the prostitute’s residence, are prohibited.
Đồng nghĩa: all-nighter, curb crawler, fare, gonk, jane, Jane, jockey, john, kerb crawler, monger, muttonmonger, punter, score, short-timer, steamer, trick, wapping cove, whoremaster, whoremonger
- 2.
(US, slang)A device or place for urination and defecation: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
Đồng nghĩa: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder, guzunder, honey bucket, honeypot, Jerry, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, mingo, necessary stool, pan, pee pot, pisspot, piss pot, po, pot, potty, potty-chair, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, slop bucket, stool, stool of easement, throne, thunder mug, toilet, urinal, big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, head, highway to hell, jacks, jakes, john, khazi, latrine, lav, pisser, pooper, porcelain god, porcelain goddess, pot, potty, privy, Quincy, shitcan, shitpot, shitter, stool, throne, toilet, toot, bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay, siege, cludgie, neddy, netty, shield, six, facilities, ladies and gentlemen, lavatory, lavabo, necessary, necessary room, office, office of ease, place, potty, privy, small room, smallest room, throne room, cottage, geography, House of Lords, khazi, usual offices, restroom, teahouse, tearoom, washroom, comfort room, CR, closet of decency, closet of ease, house of office, necessary place, purging place, vault, withdraught, wardrobe, shitter, urination station, bog, carsey, crapper, karzy, lats, lav, lavvy, loo, thunderbox, can, john, johnny, bogger, brasco, dike, dunny, jacks, jakes
- 3.
(slang)A Western man traveling in East Asia.
- 4.
A male mule.
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From the male given name John (q.v.), whose ubiquity led to extensive use of the name in generic contexts. Its use for toilets derives from John and Cousin John, which both probably relate to jacques and jakes, used in equivalent senses by the British and Irish.