average joen. An ordinary person, especially a man: “In these films the art community is a netherworld aggressively hostile to those average joes … who are not of it” (Carrie Rickey).American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.