Usually means: Luck or fate; Chinese origin.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. joss: Merriam-Webster
  2. joss, joss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. joss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jos's, Jos's, Joss, joss: Wordnik
  7. Joss, joss: Wiktionary
  8. joss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. joss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. joss: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Joss, joss: Dictionary.com
  12. joss: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. JOSS, Joss (Chinese Statue), Joss (disambiguation), Joss (name), Joss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Joss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. joss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. joss: Rhymezone
  17. Joss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Joss: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. joss: FreeDictionary.org
  20. joss: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. joss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. joss: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JOSS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. JOSS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. JOSS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. joss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Joss: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jossing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Joss)

noun:  (countable) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
noun:  (countable) A heathen divinity.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Luck.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Jocelyn.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  (fandom slang, transitive) To invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or retconning.

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