(informal) Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known. / (informal) Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).

(medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed.

(informal) The use of technology that is impressive and difficult to understand, especially in the field of computing.

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of search