the joint

noun

US slang
: prison
five years in the joint

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The group has not yet announced specific plans for action beyond the joint statement. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 The latest tumbleweed update was presented by Kingsnorth at the joint Europlanet Science Congress–AAS Division of Planetary Science meeting in Helsinki in September. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025 Beyond this step, NATO states also pressed forward with Operation Eastern Sentry training exercises, which ran concurrently with the joint Russia-Belarus Zapad-25 drills that included a number of partner countries. Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025 If your knees hurt as a result of a traumatic accident or acute event, if the joint feels really unstable, or if there’s lots of swelling and bruising, then you get checked out by a doctor. Jenny McCoy, Outside, 28 Sep. 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 8 Oct. 2025.

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