joint

Definition

  • noun: a point where two bones meet in the body
  • noun: the point of contact between elements of an animal skeleton with the parts that surround and support it
  • verb: to separate the 'joints' of (as meat)
  • adjective: combining the work of two or more people or groups of people
  • adjective: common to two or more
  • used especially of small grains
  • synonyms: junction, prison, joined

Examples

  • We had to wait a while, but that wasn't any reason for him to get his 'nose out of joint'.

  • My schedule has gotten a little 'out of joint' [='disorganized'] in the past few weeks.

  • ('Brit') They came in 'joint' third. [=they both finished in third place]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) to convey to each host nation that the U.S. is on a war footing and now is not the time to test us. Patch me into -hour watch at the Pentagon. Inform the surviving joint chiefs we are going to DEFCON . Man: You can't make that call. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is gone. Woman: That doesn't give (..)
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