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where two bones negotiate, two boards conspire, or two friends pass something around.
means A joint is the place where two things meet and connect — whether bones in the body, pieces of wood, or parts of any structure — and by extension a shared place (a bar or hangout) or, in slang, a hand-rolled cannabis cigarette.
from From Old French 'joint,' meaning a join or junction, itself the past participle of 'joindre,' to join — which traces back to Latin 'jungere,' to yoke or bind together (a cousin of 'junction,' 'conjugal,' and even the yoke that joins oxen). The anatomical sense came first; the meaning 'a shared establishment' is 19th-century American slang (originally with a seedy whiff, a place where shady types were 'jointly' present); the cannabis sense, also American slang, likely arrived in the early 20th century, perhaps from the idea of something passed around in such a place.
- body count
- Roughly 350 joints flex inside a human
- smoothest mover
- Synovial joints float on slippery cartilage cushions
- slang lineage
- Meant cheap bar before it meant rolled smoke
- woodworker pride
- Dovetail joints hold without a single nail
- odd phrase
- 'Out of joint' once just meant dislocated
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