jointistn.
U.S.
1. The keeper of a ‘joint’ or illicit drinking-saloon.
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1889 in Voice (N.Y.) 5 Sept. The Grand Jury had found nineteen indictments against jointists.
1893 Arena (U.S.) Mar. 467 In Kansas..the liquor seller is the sneaking boot~legger, skulking jointist, criminal and outlaw.
2. U.S. An advocate of something qualified as ‘joint’.
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1906 N.Y. Evening Post 18 Sept. 6 Arizona ‘jointists’ are to form an organization with joint Statehood as the only plank in its platform.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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