…a business establishment, especially a store, that has a reputation for cheating customers by charging exorbitant prices for inferior goods or services…
…the ball-and-socket joint connecting a leg to the trunk of the body, in which the head of the thigh bone fits into the socket of the hip bone…
…a joint made by halving the thickness of each member at the joint and fitting them together…
…(of wood, metal, etc.) a joint formed by two surfaces abutting at right angles…
…a bank account held by more than one person, each individual having the right to deposit and withdraw funds…
…the holding of an estate or property jointly by two or more parties, the share of each passing to the other or others on death…
…a commercial enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more parties which otherwise retain their distinct identities…
…a joint connecting two parts of a mechanism, in which a projection in one fits into a recess in the other…
…a masonry joint in which the mortar between two courses of bricks is sloped inwards so as to be flush with the surface of one but below that of the other…
…a joint made between two pipes by putting their ends into a fitting that is only slightly larger than the pipes and filling the gap with molten solder…
…a joint that makes allowance for thermal expansion of the parts joined without distortion…
…(of a joint of the body) out of position; dislocated…
…the joint connecting an upper limb or forelimb to the body. It is a ball-and-socket joint in which the head of the humerus fits into the socket of the scapula…
…a coupling or joint which can transmit rotary power by a shaft at any selected angle…
…a joint between two pipes made by tightening a threaded nut on to a metal ring, the compression thus caused creating the seal…
