joint – English noun declension

English noun forms of joint

Noun: joint
Singularjoint
Pluraljoints

Sample Sentences

  • This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.
  • The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.
  • The dovetail joint, while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.
  • Near-synonym: roast
  • Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.
  • a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg
  • It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.
  • "...Where's the ladies' in this joint? I've to powder me nose." [1996, Deirdre Purcell, Roses After Rain, page 335:]
  • For a minute I stayed away from real crowded places like Big Ben's and even the new Ruthless spot, but I hung out in a few smaller Harlem joints when I wasn't running and lifting weights and getting ready for training camp. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 255:]
  • Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints. [2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021:]
  • Now you're gonna put me right back in the joint. [1980 June 20, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, 25:19 from the start, in John Landis, director, The Blues Brothers (film), spoken by "Joliet" Jake Blue (John Belushi), Universal Pictures:]
  • I'm just trying to stay out of the joint.
  • After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint.
  • Captain Jack McMahon, chief of Houston's police narcotics division, holds tools of the “junkie” trade, including “joints” (syringes), needles, heroin, milk sugar (used to cut pure heroin), spoons for heating a shot of heroin (mixed with water), […] [1954, Listen, volumes 7-10, page 131:]
  • Inez called up Camille on the phone repeatedly and had long talks with her; they even talked about his joint, or so Dean claimed. [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:]
  • There I was, going down at last on the star of all those pornographic films that I had been producing in my head since I first laid a hand upon my own joint . . . [1969, Philip Roth, “Cunt Crazy”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 158:]
  • "Good, then," I said, my joint about to skeet like a water pistol. I was surprised too. I was known for having supreme dick control, and I could usually last a lot longer than this. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 17:]
  • a Spike Lee joint
  • Compare: jawn

Etymology

1. The noun is from Middle English joynt (attested since the late 13th century), from Old French joint (“joint of the body”) (attested since the 12th century). The adjective (attested since the 15th century) is from Old French jointiz. Both Old French words are from Latin iūnctus, the past participle of iungō. See also join, jugular, junction. Displaced Old English fōg and partially displaced English lith.
2. The meaning of "building, establishment", especially in connection with shady activities, appeared in Anglo-Irish by 1821 and entered general American English slang by 1877, especially in the sense of "opium den". The sense "marijuana cigarette" is attested since 1935. The development to meaning "any thing" also happened to the Scots and Memphian form junt and the Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphian form jawn. See: Middle English Nouns 'joynt', Latin Nouns 'iūnctus'.

Verbs referencing "joint"

Dutch Nouns joint, Romanian Nouns joint, Finnish Nouns jointti, Ukrainian Nouns джойнт.