U.S. [f. JOINT sb. 14 + -IST.] The keeper of a ‘joint’ or illicit drinking-saloon.
1881. Juction City Republican, 25 August, 2/2. A. B. Grooms the St. Marys jointist who moved his place of business to an island in the Kaw river, to escape prosecution, was drowned in the river near the island.
1889. in Voice (N.Y.), 5 Sept. The Grand Jury had found nineteen indictments against jointists.
1893. Helen M. Gougar, in Arena (U.S.), March, 467. In Kansas … the liquor seller is the sneaking boot-legger, skulking jointist, criminal and outlaw, afraid of every shadow that falls across his hiding-place.
