英语词汇joint的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	joint
词源	joint. “I have smoked opium . . . in every joint in America” (1883), is the first recorded use of the word joint for “a place.” Joints are possibly so named because people join together in them. Marijuana cigarette joints are, similarly, often smoked jointly by two or more people. Another interesting theory holds that joint was first applied to Chinese opium dens, and took its name from the bamboo walls in such places, bamboo having prominent joints.
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