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hop joint

noun

Definitions

  1. An establishment where opium is smoked.

    • There's quite a trade in laudanum since the police started shaking down the hop-joints so much.
    • Another female inmate of her abode told her its use would bring luck, so she spent a day in a "hop joint" smoking opium until night came.

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