Usually means: Anonymous male in legal contexts.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word john doe:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Doe: Merriam-Webster
  2. John Doe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. John Doe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. John Doe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. John Doe: Vocabulary.com
  6. John Doe, doe, john: Wordnik
  7. John Doe, John doe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. John Doe: Wiktionary
  9. John Doe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. John Doe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. John Doe, john doe: Dictionary.com
  12. John Doe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. John Doe (Neighbours), John Doe (Prison Break), John Doe (Seven), John Doe (TV series), John Doe (The X-Files), John Doe (disambiguation), John Doe (musician), John Doe (song), John Doe (whistleblower), John Doe, John doe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. John doe: Rhymezone
  15. John Doe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. john doe: FreeDictionary.org
  17. john doe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. John Doe: The Word Detective
  19. Doe, John, John Doe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. John Doe: World Wide Words
  21. john doe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. John Doe: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. John Doe: Artist Search

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Doe: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. John Doe: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Doe, John, John Doe: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Doe, John, John Doe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Doe, John, John Doe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. John Doe: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Doe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. John Doe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See john_does as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (John Doe)

noun:  (US) A fictitious name used in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.
noun:  (US) Any unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.

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