Example Sentences When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is make myself a cup of joe I am going to the coffee shop for a cup of joe Nothing energizes me more than a cup of joe in the morning That long meeting has given me a bad headacheA Cup of Joe Meaning The term a cup of Joe refers to a cup of coffee Origin of this idiomatic expression A cup of Joe finds its origins in the 1930s when the term a cup of jamoke was mentioned in a military guide, this term was a portmanteau of the words java and mocha and has since been shortened to the phrase we use today "A Cup of Joe" ExamplesThe term cup of joe comes from two other nicknames for coffee java and mocha Java and mocha refer to the Indonesian island of Java, where coffee is widely grown, and Mocha, the ancient Yemeni port which was the first to export coffee Java and mocha were then shorted to "a cup of jamoke," which was popular to say in the 1930s
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