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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n.1889- to hold great price upon
- to hold guns
- to hold hand
- to hold hard
- to hold high state
- to hold house
- to hold in
- to hold in a great suspense
- to hold in abomination
- to make her point
- to make history
- to make hold a vow
- to make holiday
- to make homage
- to make horns at
- to make in
- to make in one's way
- to make interest
- to make it
- to make it a point to
- to make it a religion to
- to make it a rule
- to make it big
- to make it coy
- to make it fair with