Usually means: Young offspring of a kangaroo.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Joey:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. joey: Merriam-Webster
  2. joey, joey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. joey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Joey, joey: Wordnik
  6. joey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Joey, joey: Wiktionary
  8. joey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. joey: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. joey: Dictionary.com
  11. joey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. JOEY, Joey (Bob Dylan song), Joey (Concrete Blonde song), Joey (Sugarland song), Joey (TV series), Joey (disambiguation), Joey (marsupial), Joey (name), Joey (sitcom), Joey (song), Joey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Joey: Rhymezone
  14. joey: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. Joey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. joey: FreeDictionary.org
  17. joey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. joey: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. joey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. joey: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. joey: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. joey, joey, joey, joey, joey, joey, joey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Joey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Joey: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (joey)

noun:  The immature young of a marsupial, notably a junior kangaroo, but also a young wallaby, koala, etc.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A young child.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, prison slang) A parcel smuggled in to an inmate.
noun:  (theater, circus) A kind of clown.
noun:  (UK, military, slang) A member of the Royal Marines.
noun:  (dated, slang, derogatory, offensive in British) A person with cerebral palsy.
noun:  (dated, slang, derogatory, offensive in British) A stupid person.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A fourpenny piece, or its value; fourpence worth.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Joe or Joseph.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
noun:  Ellipsis of joey word. [A word that is contained in a kangaroo word.]

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