Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(a) a person, a fellow, a ‘chap’.

1897		E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 64: While de Duchesse was dressing Miss Fannie [...] I was piping off de artist joint, and he was piping off me.
1897		Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: His boss he gives some funny names, when he can't hear the joke. / He calls him ‘joint’ and ‘finger,’ and he sometimes calls him ‘bloke’.
1905		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Polyglot Policeman’ Sporting Times 1 Apr. 1/4: There’s the parlour-maid at number six, a tasty joint from France.
1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Barter’ Sporting Times 1 Feb. 1/3: Take my tip, and look at home, marm, and maybe you’ll want to barter / Your own joint.
1911		Truth (Sydney) 19 Mar. 12/3: Till a Joint who’d once been warder / In the quod at Wellington, / Spottin of her once a-servin / In the shop, put her pot on.
1916		Funny Wonder 5 Feb. 1: I discovered a joint of extreme age.
1920		Film Fun 24 Apr. 20: All these jolly little joints who were tied up in the tent started to kick their heels.
1923		P. MacGill Moleskin Joe 80: I’ve been a lag, a crook [...] a joint as can keep puttin’ down tipple in the four-ale when my butties are on the sawdust.
1942		Whizzbang Comics 19: Hold it down, Jenny, old joint. [Ibid.] 29: Being a generous joint he handed over much reward.
1951		(con. 1940s) S. Longstreet Pedlocks (1971) 341: A dazed collection of tough old joints – not knowing much of what was going on or caring.

(b) a wife; a girlfriend.

1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 12 June 4/4: They Say [...] That Spiff H. has thrown up the old joint and taken on one under 15 hands.

(c) (Aus.) a wedding.

1914

Sport (Adelaide) 28 Aug. 5/4: The joint was made in Baptist Church [...] at last with Elsie G. and F.C .

(d) (US black/gay) a feminine male homosexual partner.

1996

L. Pettiway Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 144: At the time, they used the word ‘joint.’ You know, ‘You’re my joint,’ you know. They didn’t use ‘girlfriend,’ ’cause we weren’t no girls, you know.

(a) (US drugs, also pipe joint) an opium den.

1881		Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: In order to make my investigation of the matter thorough and truthful, I made myself acquainted with some fifty male and female American smokers in this city, became a daily visitor, staying for hours at the principal smoking-house or ‘joint’.
1891		N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: A girl of twelve years halted in front of Lee Young’s opium joint, 104 Park Street, looked up and down the street in a half-scared way, and went swiftly into the place.
1894		Mirror of Life 27 Jan. 7/4: The opium joints run by the almond-eyed wretches are that filthy and offensive to a respectable citizen.
1901		C.R. Wooldridge Hands Up! 215: Smokers can be found in all kinds of recumbent attitudes in a joint. They frequently lie with their heads on each other’s shoulders in order that they may be convenient to the lamp.
1914		Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: When I became a regular smoker I bought a ‘layout’ — pipe, bowls, lamp, tray, yen hocks, everything — and indulged my habit in the ‘joint’ of a white smoker where I was a favored patron.
1921		(?) H. Lawson ‘The Green Lady’ in Roderick (1972) 896: Detectives lookin’ as innercent as fifteen Chinamen outside a fantan an’ opium joint.
1934		‘Willie the Weeper’ in Lomax & Lomax Amer. Ballads and Folk Songs 185: Went to the Chink’s joint the other night [...] He called in the Chink and ordered a toy of hop.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.

(b) (orig. US) any place, esp. a bar or club, a brothel, a gambling establishment, a restaurant.

1886		Lantern (New Orleans, LA) 10 Nov. 14: A tough joint.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 14 Jan. 6/6: Do you mean how I got the joint (i.e., the shop).
1894		Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 4 Mar. 13/6: He was steered into McInerney’s joint. Whisky does not cost anything here for a man playing against the bank.
1895		J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 63: We were mortal hungry, and nothing was open, for we’d tried several joints on the way up.
1897		A.H. Lewis Wolfville 176: He slaps up a joint outen tent-cloth an’ fence-boards, an’ opens a dance-hall.
1900		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 1/1: If the joint [i.e. race-course] grows so beastly greedy , some of the neighbours will indite their shrieking [...] plot as a common nuisance.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 23 Jan. 4/1: Dan Carter’s ‘joint,’ as hot a hazard [i.e. card gambling] drum as anyone could wish for.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surrey Hills, NSW) 6 Nov. 4/2: [of a pak-a-pu ‘parlour’] he manager of the joint [...] has placed before him a list of every combination marke ooff by the flat investors.
1903		A. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise 287: The only faro-joint still unknown to the police was closed for ‘the holidays’.
1909		C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 80: She [...] went into a chop suey ‘joint’ to get a bite to eat.
1910		B. Fisher Mutt & Jeff 29 July [synd. strip] I went into a gambling house [...] Gambling’s against the law. You can have the joint pinched.
1914		Day Book (Chicago) 11 Mar. 2/1: ‘We got her in a raid at 3029 Vernon avenue,’ he said shortly. ‘It’s a joint’.
1915		Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 304: Started some rough woik in me own dance-joint.
1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 30: joint — A place.
1920		F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 153: He’s a waiter in a hash joint.
1920		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Feb. 22/4: Frank Gardiner, ex-bushranger, [...] was shot in the ‘joint’ that he ran in ’Frisco after he got away from Australia.
1925		Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves 114: She can’t understand why we never seem to meet anyone I know at these joints.
1932		(con. WWI) L. Mann Flesh in Armour 256: ‘I had tea at the first joint I came to — a cheap place where the food was bad’.
1936		A. Seale N.Y. Age 1 Aug. 7/4: [of a speakeasy-cum-brothel] In many of the apartment houses, gin mills were opened [...] Prostitution flourished in these ‘joints’.
1935		D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 200: Suppose I’m running some kind of a joint, gamblin’ say, or bootleg.
1937		‘Boxcar Bertha’ Sister of the Road (1975) 17: Sometimes the girls would take me to their joints for a visit. I was fascinated.
1941		A. Gurney Bluey & Curley 23 May [synd. cartoon strip] Ask old whiskers if he knows where we can get a beer around this joint!
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 155: [of a jungle battle site] If we got to stay here a couple of days, the fuggers won’t be stinkin’ up the joint.
1951		(con. 1941) E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 127: If it’d get me out of this joint I’d put on a mad act meself.
1953		‘William Lee’ Junkie (1966) 52: The cops will all be in some all-night joint drinking coffee.
1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 292: I’d take him to joints like the Five Spot. I showed him Connie’s.
1966		B. Reckord Skyvers III iii: [of a school] Yeah let’s break the joint up.
1971		R.D. Pharr S.R.O. (1998) 12: [of a welfare hotel] All S.R.O.s were turningto Welfare joints [...] but at least it would seem that this wasn’t a bucket of blood...yet.
1973		D. Goines Street Players 17: Know in and out of all the craps-houses and after hours joints.
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 8: ‘You know where this joint we’re staying at is?’.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 71: Reynaldo Flemm barely had time to snoop the joint over.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 5: A ritzy frog joint on Geary.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 3: The muffled sounds of bar music coming up ffom the basement joints.
1999		Indep. Rev. 4 Sept. 20: There should be no problem [...] getting a drink in a joint where I’ve spent a small fortune over the years.
2000		G.V. Higgins At End of Day (2001) 145: He’s got a dozen joints? I didn’t realize Marvy had access to that much capital.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 36/2: The coffee bars of Swanstin Street [...] You know the joints.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] They only places [i.e. brothels] you could work without having to do extras were [...] illegal joints.
2005		(con. c.1945) A. Wheatle Island Songs (2006) 24: Mr Johnstone’s ‘rum joint’ was open for business.
2012		T.P. McCauley ‘Lady Madeline’s Dive’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] ‘We run a gamblin’ joint for Chrissakes!’.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 14: A hubbub juked the joint. I knew I radiated fuzz.

(c) one’s house or home.

1894		Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [of a college dormitory] Come around to my joint and feed this noon.
1911		G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society 257: Here, git away from this joint.
1925		D. Hammett ‘Dead Yellow Women’ Story Omnibus (1966) 156: Send him up to my joint. I’ll wait there for him.
1931		D. Runyon ‘Blood Pressure’ Runyon on Broadway (1954) 85: Let us go to my joint and make my old woman cook us up some breakfast.
1932		(con. WWI) L. Mann Flesh in Armour 196: [of a stately home] ‘Some joint,’ said Joe Woods tersely.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 29: I’ve been pretty busy fixing up the new joint.
1942		R.L. Bellem ‘Daughter of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Now suppose you give me the lowdown. What are you doing in my joint?
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 198: Bet’s got a promise of half a joint down at Narrabundah.
1954		Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 67: Our old pal Percy Gorringe, who is [...] infesting the joint.
1959		S. Bellow Henderson The Rain King 15: Hell! How can you live in this stinking joint?
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 47: I can apprise her of what’s going on in this joint.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 36: They’ll be all right at my joint.
1979		Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 86: ‘What’s for tea?’ [...] ‘Chops and peas, dear. All right?’ ‘Don’t we eat anything else around this joint?’.
1989		A. Vachss Hard Candy (1990) 45: I scanned the joint whle the phone rang.
1999		Indep. on Sun. Real Life 18 July 9: Our box-like room [...] was still less revolting than the rest of the joint.
2003		P. Cornwell Blow Fly (2004) 82: Shit! [...] Couldn’tcha at least find a joint with an elevator.
2005		L. Redhead Rubdown [ebook] All the houses were huge [...] I hated to think how much a joint here would cost.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 58: ‘Just don’t trash the joint and we’ll be sweet’.

(d) (Aus./UK) a bookmaker’s stand or pitch.

1895		Mirror of Life 9 Nov. 14/1: Dinny became a beast of burden to a bookie at the different racecourses by carrying his ‘joint’.
1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 29 June 4/2: I gave the public a more than broad hint that one or two noisy over-the-odds silverites were ‘rocky’ and some of the ‘joints’ smellful.
1935		Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 6: Joint: Bookmaker’s stand.
2013		T. Peacock More You Bet 19: A bookmaking set-up or operation [...] is referred to as a ‘joint’.

(e) (orig. US tramp) a meeting place.

1899		S.F. Call 2 Apr. 25/5: Their place of meeting [is] the ‘joint’.
1904		‘Number 1500’ Life In Sing Sing 249: Joint. Meeting house for thieves.
1926		Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Sl.
1929		V.W. Saul ‘Vocab. of Bums’ in AS IV:5 341: Joint — A meeting place; see ‘hangout.’.
1997–2000		Da Bomb 🌐 28: The joint: Meeting place; location or place where people hang out. We should meet up at Fatburger because it’s the joint.

(f) (Aus.) a firm.

1910

Truth (Perth) 10 Dec. 4/8: They do frequent send down for me / While I’m waiting on me point. / If I ain’t available, sir, / They won’t have no other joint.

(g) a factory.

1915

C.J. Dennis ‘The Intro’ in Songs of a Sentimental Bloke 20: I found ’er lurk / Wus pastin’ labels in a pickle joint.

(h) (Aus.) a public-house bar.

1918

C.J. Dennis ‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 102: There’s Rose who serves behind the joint / In Mudge’s privit bar.

(i) a country, geographical area, a town, a city.

1919		H.C. Witwer Smile A Minute 250: I’ll betcha Pres. Wilson will have dragged them outa Holland, or wherever that joint is they beat it to.
1924		‘Digit’ Confessions of a Twentieth Century Hobo 46: Being told by some other hobos that P—— was ‘a tough joint,’ we decided to jump a rattler out of town.
1933		W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 201: ‘I thought maybe you’d go out some place.’ ‘Where could I go in a joint like this?’.
1946		D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 149: Woolgoolie, brother — W-o-o-l-g-o-o-l-i-e. That’s the joint where this story happened.
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 18: Cripes, mate, what a joint! [...] Stay here – at least there’s trams.
1966		W. Wilson LBJ Brigade (1967) 19: The easiest thing ta do in this joint is die.
1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 219: He can go to work same as me, you, and every Tom, Dick and Harry in the joint here.
1999		Indep. Rev. 6 Nov. 20: An ‘I love New York’ mug. I do indeed adore the joint.
2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 52: I saw that Washington was a whole other kind of joint, the exact opposite of the city.
2016		N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] [M]y memories of the joint [i.e. West Australia] aren’t quite as savage.

(j) (Aus./US carnival) any ‘sideshow’.

1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 28 Dec. 5/2: [He] was wheeled to the station by a three-up player, who entered a charge against him [...] of stealing his joint.
1928		P.W. White ‘Lang. of the Lot’ in AS III:5 414: A carnival concession is known as a joint or store.
1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 111: Joint. – [...] A booth or tent in which a gambling game is conducted at carnivals or in amusement parks.
1949		‘I’ll Gyp You Every Time’ in C. Hamilton Men of the Und. 179: The gambling tents or ‘joints,’ as we call them.
1953		W.L. Alderson ‘Carnie Talk’ AS XXVIII:2 117: joint, n. A concession or establishment.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 145: The 19th-century racecourse term for a place or stand where sideshow games were played – a joint – is still used by SHOWIES (show people) today, as is the word for the area of land where the joint is erected, the pitch.
2001		‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 58: ‘What about your joint?’ Fat Jew baby owned and operated the Bobo joint.
2012		W. Keyser ‘Carny Lingo’ in http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Joint (sometimes ‘store’) — Any carnival midway concession booth.

(k) (US) prison, also as the joint.

1881		Wkly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) 25 May 2/3: Judge Steele did not think he could get to the joint as a killer and wisely ordewred Alkali [Charlie] to leave town.
1928		J. Callahan Man’s Grim Justice 42: Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the worst stirs in the United States.
1934		L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 95: These crummy bastards won’t know the difference; most of them never guzzled anything but ‘smoke’ before they hit this joint.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 66: ‘Kid, can you keep books?’ ‘Not much, just for the joint and like that.’.
1953		T. Runyon In For Life 76: Every guard in the joint can see us talking.
1963		M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 96: So it seems the only way I can be free of this dolly is by going to the joint.
1972		J. McNeill Old Familiar Juice (1973) 56: bulla: Who’s rotten socks are those? Hey? ’Oo leaves ’is jammy footwear lyin’ around the joint .
1973		D. Goines Street Players 119: It ain’t goin’ to keep so-called Earl the Pearl’s black ass out of the joint.
1983		C. Heath A-Team 2 (1984) 134: I could break out of this cush joint on horseback with a bad case of the flu.
1999		E. Bunker Mr Blue 70: You’ll get to read a lot of books in the joint.
1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 32: joint n. 2. A prison.
2000		Guardian Rev. 28 Jan. 5: Ashley Judd plays Libby, a sexy, youngish soccer mom who is sent to the joint.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 96/2: joint n. a prison.
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 172: Inside the Federal joint, he’s marked as a short eyes.
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 4: In the joint, where business is slow, the library is The Spot .
2012		J.J. DeCeglie ‘Death Cannot Be Delegated’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Why risk more joint years over her.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘I get popped for as much as littering, I die in the joint’.
2018		G. Disher Kill Shot [ebook] Kramer was already reaching out to some of the psychos in the joint.
2024		C. Stella Joey Piss Pot 9: ‘[I]t’s not like he don’t hold a position [in the Mafia] while he’s in the joint’.

(l) (US) a police station.

1963

J. Rechy City of Night 134: Poor Trudi’s even checked the joint, and those nasty bulls there and all!

(m) (US) a detoxification facility.

1989

P. Benchley Lush 45: Ever been in a joint before? [...] Gotta beat jail, though. Gotta be a cruise [...] And when you get out, just be careful where you go boozing.

(n) in fig. use; of any kind of object or place; often unspecified.

1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Joint (noun) Restroom.
1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 21: [of a newspaper] Got to be in that joint every single week, Marcus.
2001		G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 110: ‘Where Jimmy’s uncle get the money for a Lexus?’ [...] ‘I don’t know,’ said Lionel, ‘but that joint is tight’.
2005		W.D. Myers Autobiog. of My Dead Brother 165: I was right in the middle of the joint, and it wasn’t a hundred percent clear what the action was.

(a) a swindling set-up or a place to be robbed; thus operator of such a place (see cite 1919).

1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 12 Oct. 3/6: [He] noticed a small electric battery under the counter [...] and asked, ‘what’s that?’ Then the game was up. Hayseed’s ‘joint’ was exposed.
1909		W. Irwin Confessions of a Con Man 58: ‘The joint’ is the term used by confidence men to describe the actual operation by which the victim’s money is taken away.
1919		Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 10 May 20/3: Take a quiet game of two-up, / Where a big ‘joint’ starts a row.
1930		C.R. Shaw Jack-Roller 202: There is a joint (meaning a place to rob) I’m going to make soon.
1933		J. Gray ‘The Nudist Gym Death Riddle’ in Vice Squad Detective 🌐 Sam Andrew [...] certainly had the right tip when he figured Lestro’s place was a joint. What a swell layout for a blackmail racket!
1938		J.B. Booth Sporting Times 265: But the ‘joint’ must be transported (whatever else gets off!).
1940		D. Maurer Big Con 300: joint. 1. A place of business. (Legitimate.) 2. A gambling house, big store, or other establishment where marks are trimmed.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 805: joint – A prospective place of burglary or robbery.

(b) (Aus. Und.) a situation, usu. corrupt or swindling.

1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 87: Any business or swindle among the criminal or larrikin fraternity is a joint.
1911		Truth (Sydney) 26 Feb. 12/4: But at present he are doin / Right well out of that there joint / As she don’t deny him nothin / As he chooses to appoint.

(c) (US Und., also top of the joint) the total amount taken in a single confidence trick.

1940

D. Maurer Big Con 299: The head of the joint or top of the joint. The total amount taken in a single confidence touch. [Ibid.] joint. 3. The score from a confidence game.

(a) an opium pipe or hypodermic syringe and other drug paraphernalia [the ‘joining’ of the opium and its pipe].

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Joint, a complete hypodermic outfit consisting of syringe and needles (ointjay).
1938		D. Maurer ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in AS XIII:3 186/1: joint. [...] 4. The opium smoker’s outfit complete.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 253: I called up Mike and begged him to bring me the joint (the layout) and put me out of my misery.
1953		‘William Lee’ Junkie (1966) 159: Works, Outfit, Joint . . . A user’s outfit for injecting junk. Consists of an eyedropper, hypodermic needle, strip of paper to fit the dropper tight into the needle, and a spoon or other container in which to dissolve the junk.
1970		G. Cain Blueschild Baby 18: ‘I can’t baby, got it [i.e. a syringe] in my arm already,’ and she boots the blood smiling. We finish up and clean the joints.
1983		V. Viidikas ‘Island of Gems’ in India Ink (1984) 45: We are offered heroin joints as well to settle our nauseous stomachs unused to raw opium.

(b) a cigarette laced with paregoric.

1966

(con. 1958) R. Farina Been Down So Long (1972) 23: Paregoric making little lumps in side pocket [...] Both joints were still a bit damp, having been only partially dried.

(c) a marijuana or hashish cigarette [the ‘joining’ of the drug with tobacco to make the cigarette; by the 1990s the drug reference had become sufficiently common for the word to be used almost without comment or identifying quotation marks].

1952		(con. 1948) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 171: You got a couple of joints to take along?
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 71: [Y]ou see the joint burning badly because there’s too many seeds in it.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 122: Sach pulls out the red papers and makes a three-paper joint.
1973		D. Goines Street Players 8: He picked up a joint and pointed it towards Billy before lighting up.
1988		P. Califia Macho Sluts 29: [They] were sharing a joint in a not-too-dark corner.
1993		Snoop Doggy Dogg ‘Doggy Dogg World’ 🎵 You think you got the bomb cuz I rolled you a joint.
1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 32: joint n. 1.A rolled cigarette of marijuana.
2001		Indep. Rev. 3 July 5: A spliff here, a toke there, a joint’s-worth handed over to a friend.
2006		R. Antoni Carnival 119: He [...] pulled out a joint and lit it with a Bic lighter.
2007		L. Redhead Cherry Pie [ebook] [She] dug around in her bra, finally producing a bent-up joint.
2011		Big Issue (Cape Town) 10 Jan. 20/2: You must be pretty high to think it’s OK to cuff someone just for carrying a joint.
2016		Times 20 Aug. 34/3: The decision to develop the market for pre-rolled joints, cannabis cookies, spiked soft drinks.
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Passing the cigarette back and forth like it was a joint.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 236: Soon as we got out of town they started lighting up joints.
2020		G. Armstrong Young Team 8: His big cuz taught him up n he kin roll joints.
2021		S.A. Crosby Razorblade Tears 21: A jar of moonshine [...] and two joints in his truck.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 236: [A man under surveillance] ‘Talks of Daniel and Christopher and joints of weed’.
2023		D. Whish-Wilson I Am Already Dead 39: Lee smoked a small thin joint.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 124: I like to be tucked up by 9 o’clock with a mug of Horlicks and a fat joint.

(d) marijuana.

1996

L. Pettiway Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 35: I was more of a marijuana freak. I would, you know, go across town to find a good bag of joint. Or a larger amount of joint for a lesser — if I could get a nickel bag — get a bigger one somewhere in North Jefferson.