joss

noun

1. (countable)A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
2. (countable)A heathen divinity.

   “Don't forget they're mostly just joss-worshipping heathen an' they don't get no kick out of the more classy breeds o' religion. Though I guess there ain't that much diff'rence. It ain't many's so Lord Almighty in theirselves that they don't need a joss of some sort, an' I guess it's what yu think about him matters not the sort o' joss.”

3. (informal, uncountable)Luck.

   “She had twisted a piece of heather into her mail box for good joss, and this was the safety signal.”

name

1. A unisex given name
2. A unisex given name
3. A surname.

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or retconning.

   “Author's note part 2: I'm leaving it to the imagination of the reader what Cordelia saw of her future. Writing that out would be asking to be Jossed.”

   “I have this pet theory which will no doubt be Jossed (Greenwalted?) sooner or later. That Wes's dad is not a Watcher, but someone wealthy and financially connected with the Council (if they have all that influence, at least some of the people involved must know who they are)--in short, some kind of profiteer in the war against the forces of evil.”

   “Even if your pet subject was "Jossed" by HBP (in other words, your theorizing was annihalated^([sic]) or impacted by a canon development) we'd love to have your archival works on HPInkPot - just select "pre-HBP" in the "when was this work written?" section.”