Usually means: Salted, dried hake or cod.
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  1. poor john: Merriam-Webster
  2. poor-john: Wordnik
  3. Poor John, poor-john: Wiktionary
  4. Poor-john, poor-john: Dictionary.com
  5. Poor-john: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. poor-john: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Poor-john: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. Poor John: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  9. poor-john: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Poor-john: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poor-John, Poor John: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Poor John)

noun:  Alternative form of poor-john [A small European fish, of inferior quality to the cod.]

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