john

noun

1. (US, slang)A prostitute's client.

   “The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.”

   “Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire, And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire. You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake, Oh oh, he one more gone, he one more john who make the mistake.”

   “In the first part of the video, Thad sucks the john's cock and takes a load in his mouth.”

   “In-calls, where the john comes to the prostitute’s residence, are prohibited.”

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.
3. (slang)A Western man traveling in East Asia.
4. A male mule.
5. (UK, slang)A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

   “I and the other "Johns," as I soon discovered all new-comers at Sandhurst were, and are still, styled, although at the time I was unconscious of it, managed to troop in after the A company, but although not two minutes after them, found all the different messes already seated and hard at work.”

   “To avoid bullying, first-year “Johns” (from Johnny Raw) “fagged” for senior classmen known as “Regs.” Fagging included making beds, running messages, and smuggling contraband.”

6. (US, alt-of, archaic, slang)Alternative letter-case form of john (“a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, chamber pot”).
7. An excuse, chiefly made by a losing player for their poor performance.

   “Remember, no Johns.”

   “This is the sound of a John. A John. He wants to wait.”

   “Bursting from the inaudible chatter of many smiling faces, a thunderous voice emerges, “No Johns, son!””

   “You never know, I might show up to challenge you someday. And if we ever do get to go head to head: Please, no Johns.”

   “I didn’t get any hand warmers. I didn’t warm up properly. I didn’t get enough sleep last night. There’s television lag. These are some of the Johns that [D'ron "D1"] Maingrette says he’s heard over the years.”

name

1. A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

   “John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths, and individual fame is impossible.”

   “The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.”

2. (informal)A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

   “a John Doe murder case; the dreaded Dear John letter; if we were to ask John Q. Public his opinion”

3. (informal)A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
4. Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).

   “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”

5. The Gospel of St John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
6. One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
7. A surname originating as a patronymic.