johnny:
(plural: ‘johnnies‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
(in British English usage & usually with a capital “J”) a fellow (a man or a boy);
a very handsome young man who knows how to handle difficult situations;
(in slang usage) a codeword for somebody, usually a supervisor, parent or police officer, a person hides from while doing something illegal,
a johnny
The johnny who sat next to me on the commute train looked decent but showed little interest to talk to me or the others.
As more and more companies are laying off their work force, we see more and more Johnnies in the streets, waiting for buses or just lumbering along because they cannot afford motor vehicles any longer.
This club is famous for their Johnnies, smart men with cool behaviour, and very rich women make a beeline to get admission to even at exorbitant membership fee.
The idiom ‘Johnny-come-lately’ is used to refer to someone who has started recently in their job or business but becomes very popular within this short period, and ‘to pull a johnny’ means the act of a man, acting as if he were drunk, stealing something valuable, such a purses or jewellery from girls at a club or party.
