Usually means: Toilet, or informal name for men.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. John, john: Merriam-Webster
  2. John, John, john: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. John, John, john: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. john: Collins English Dictionary
  5. John, john: Vocabulary.com
  6. JOhn, John, John, John, john: Wordnik
  7. john: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. John, john: Wiktionary
  9. john: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. John: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. john: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. John, john: Dictionary.com
  13. John, john: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. john: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. John (Desireless song), John (Lil Wayne song), John (Sicilian admiral), John (disambiguation), John (first name), John (given name), John (knez), John (name), John (nephew of Vitalian), John (prostitution), John (surname), John: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. John: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. john: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. John: Rhymezone
  19. John: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. JOHN, John: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. John: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. John: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. john: FreeDictionary.org
  24. john: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. John: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. John: World Wide Words
  27. john: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. john: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. john: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. John (European rulers), John (disambiguation), John: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. John: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. JOHN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. john: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. John: Easton Bible
  2. John: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. john, john, john, john, john, john, John: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. John: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. john: ESL Slang page
  4. The John: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See johning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (John)

noun:  (slang, US) A prostitute's client.
noun:  (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
noun:  (slang) A Western man traveling in East Asia.
noun:  A male mule.
noun:  A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
noun:  (informal) Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.
noun:  (informal) Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).
noun:  (biblical) 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).
noun:  (biblical) The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
noun:  (biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  (UK, military, slang) A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
noun:  (video games, Super Smash Bros.) An excuse, chiefly made by a losing player for their poor performance.
noun:  (US, slang, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of john (“a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, chamber pot”). [(slang, US) A prostitute's client.]

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