Usually means: Folk hero, steel-driving man.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word John Henry:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Henry: Merriam-Webster
  2. Henry, John: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. John Henry: Collins English Dictionary
  4. John Henry: Vocabulary.com
  5. John-Henry: Wordnik
  6. John Henry, John henry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. John Henry: Wiktionary
  8. John Henry: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Henry, John, john henry: Dictionary.com
  10. John Henry (Cook Islands), John Henry (Cook Islands politician), John Henry (Maryland), John Henry (Maryland politician), John Henry (Ontario politician), John Henry (Terminator), John Henry (actor), John Henry (album), John Henry (baseball), John Henry (disambiguation), John Henry (folklore), John Henry (horse), John Henry (picture book), John Henry (representative), John Henry (senator), John Henry (song), John Henry (spy), John Henry (toxicologist), John Henry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. John henry: Rhymezone
  12. john henry: FreeDictionary.org
  13. john henry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Henry, John, John Henry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. john henry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  16. John Henry: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Henry: Artist Search
  2. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Henry, John, John Henry: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. John Henry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. John Henry: The Folk File
  3. John Henry, john henry: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (idiomatic) One's signature.

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