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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

  • (..) Will you knock it off! Well, he started it. Look at you guys. No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain. Man, I hate dangling. Shyeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be runnin' the joint. Yeah. Man, I hate lions. So pushy. And hairy. And stinky. And man are they... (..)
    1994 The Lion King