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joj

/dʒɒʒ/

joj interjection: a nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.

Interjection (1)

  1. (Internet, humorous, nonce-word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
    • You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]2019 June 11, (on Twitch) paperboxhouse with snapscube, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube
    • ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward...[2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95

Interjection (2) capitalized: JoJ

  1. Alternative letter-case form of joj.

Forms of joj

alternative formJoJ

Origin of joj

A palindromization of job. Popularized by cs188's video "[YTP] No one needs foundation repair", first uploaded in 2011.

Questions about joj

What does joj mean?
Joj means a nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
What part of speech is joj?
Joj is an interjection.
How do you pronounce joj?
Joj is pronounced /dʒɒʒ/.

Words near joj in the dictionary

  1. joistings
  2. joistless
  3. joistlike
  4. joists
  5. joistwork
  6. joj
  7. jojifuku
  8. jojo
  9. jojoba
  10. jojoba ester
  11. jojoba esters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: joj (page history and authors); JoJ (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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