the joint

noun

US slang
: prison
five years in the joint

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Despite playing just 30 minutes against West Ham, the Arsenal captain ended the game with the joint-most line-breaking passes in the final third (four). Art De Roché, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Domestic and global investment banks such as Kotak Mahindra Capital, Axis Capital, BNP Paribas and HDFC Bank were among the joint bookrunners. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025 But that may have shifted since Oza presented the research about WASP-39b last month at the joint Europlanet Science Congress/Division of Planetary Sciences (EPSC-DPS) conference in Helsinki, Finland. Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2025 The silver gallium functions as a natural antibacterial agent, and was found in animal testing to fight infection at the joint implantation site. New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the joint

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“The joint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20joint. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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