Instead, friends took me to a nearby sports bar and rib joint, just a year old, commonly called Earl Campbell's on Sixth.

So big, in fact, that you almost expect to see bib-clad trout with forks and knives like underwater patrons at some sort of rib joint.

He was dead before the car plowed into the front of a rib joint at 133rd Street.

Verdict: A rib joint, not a barbecue joint.

They bowed formally to Farrell, there in the, tarnished light of the rib joint, as Hamid made introductions.

The owner of a rib joint from North Jersey was explaining public relations to the women's soccer team from North Korea.

I ran into Royal Waldron at a rib joint, had the same conversation with him I'd been having with everybody else.

Despite these unusual traits, rib joints will have a fiercely loyal clientele.

To an old man in a rib joint, he is a gangster known for carving up his enemies with a knife.

On the evening of the first day of the seminar, Hare and I went out for dinner at Smokey Bones, a rib joint.