cup of joe

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A cup of coffee

Pike Place is Starbucks' attempt to address complaints that its regular cup of joe is bitter, overroasted and burnt..

cup of joe

    Hyphenation

    cup of Joe

    Turkish pronunciation

    kʌp ıv cō

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkəp əv ˈʤō/ /ˈkʌp əv ˈʤoʊ/

    Etymology

    () * The phrase "cup of Joe" goes back to the mid-1840s. Despite the folk etymology that the phrase derives from Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy who banned the serving of alcohol on ships in 1914, the phrase is known to predate his service.
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