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hop joints

hop joints is the plural of hop joint.

Meaning of hop joint

Noun

hop joint (plural hop joints)

  1. (slang) An establishment where opium is smoked.
    • There's quite a trade in laudanum since the police started shaking down the hop-joints so much.1915, George Bronson-Howard, God's Man, page 39

Questions about hop joints

What is hop joints the plural of?
Hop joints is the plural of hop joint.

Words near hop joints in the dictionary

  1. hop hornbeams
  2. hop in
  3. hop into
  4. hop it
  5. hop joint
  6. hop joints
  7. hop merchant
  8. hop merchants
  9. hop n pop
  10. hop off
  11. hop on

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