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John

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Definition


Slang term for bathroom. Also slang term for a prostitute's customer.

Context : Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Social Life
Category: Euphemism, Lexicon
Semantic: bathroom, prostitution, toilet

Usage of “John”

  1. I drank a lot of water today. Let me use the John before we leave.

  2. Where's Dad? He's in the John as usual at this hour in the morning.

  3. A sting operation arrested 23 Johns last night in the city's biggest ever crackdown on prostitution.