Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a Howard Johnson’s motel.

1992		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.
1993		G. & M. Springer Frommer’s Guide to Florida 250: Hojo’s has newly remodeled rooms with two double beds or king-size sleepers.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 61: He saw the Chevron sign. He saw the HoJo’s.
2004		T. Manners Cool News about Retail 63: Why, there were three hojo’s in New York’s Times Square theater district alone!
2013		T. Black ‘Long Drop’ in Killing Time in Las Vegas [ebook] A to-let sign hung over the door of a long vacated HoJo’s.