John Hancock

[John Hancock] or [John Henry] {n.}, {informal} Your signature; your name in writing.

* /The man said, "Put your John Hancock on this paper."/

* /Joe felt proud when he put his John Henry on his very first driver's license./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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