(economics) A job that has less immediate financial benefit to the economy than it costs to support.

(anatomy) A joint formed where the pelvic acetabulum and the head of the femur meet.

Alternative form of John-a-Nokes

(archaic) Used as an anonymous placeholder for the name of a person.

(dated, slang) A commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, especially one which is shabby or downmarket.

(US, slang) Synonym of one-arm lunchroom

(medicine) Synonym of arthrocentesis

plural of Johnny rook

(Falklands) A bird, the caracara.

A form of employment in which an employer spends a period of time in one department or working on one task and is then moved on to another.