the joint

noun

US slang
: prison
five years in the joint

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Top military officials are expected to attend the convention, including Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Randy George, chief of staff to the Army, and Gen. Steven Nordhaus, chief of the National Guard Bureau. Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025 What To Know The Chinese navy—which operates the world's largest warship fleet by hull count—released footage of the joint patrol with its Russian counterpart on Wednesday. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025 Bloom, who split from Perry earlier this year, was served a subpoena and named in the joint witness list. Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025 Where Reagan walked away from Reykjavik rather than accept a bad deal, Trump seems perpetually seduced by the optics of the moment, the handshake photo, the joint press conference that suggests progress where none exists. Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Aug. 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 31 Aug. 2025.

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