sloppy joe

1. 1.

   ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun

   Broadersandwich

Questions about sloppy joe

What does sloppy joe mean?

sloppy joe means "ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun".

Is sloppy joe a common word?

sloppy joe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.