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proper noun
- An English and Welsh patronymic surname derived from the given name Jon or John
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noun
- (context, US, slang, now, _, rare) heroin, Heroin.
- 1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p196
- :You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
- 1975, unknown author, Northwestern Reporter, p512
- :Defendant responded by saying he had some "Jones", a term used to describe heroin.
- 2000, Ogden, Priest Opiast, Re: Questions about Percocet, Ativan & Xanax, <tt>alt.drugs.hard</tt>, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.drugs.hard/msg/84f38e60f8879af3?dmode=source
- :You seem like a smart kid, and dont get me wrong here, we dont want to see you all fucked up, cracked out butt naked on 4th street in the bad side of town, lookin to fuck the 1st millionaire willing to fork over some money.
- 2001, Terminus Est, Re: Nothing to Fear but Pain Itself, <tt>alt.support.depression.manic</tt>, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.depression.manic/msg/e0f97132175dad95?dmode=source
- :Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little ?
- (context, US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.
- I"ve got a basketball !
- 1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, MacMillan?, p262
- :... I've got a ," and she dropped her head.
- 1992, Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, HarperCollins?, p93
- :"On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a . They got a crack or a smack , ..."
- 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p126
- :And I went through a kind of withdrawal thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
- 2003, Ken Hughes in Jim Aikin (ed.), Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments, Backbeat Books, p64
- :If you have a for one of these old tape-tanglers but lack the cash, space, and/or patience necessary to acquire, house and maintain one, consider M-Tron.
verb (joneses, jonesing, jonesed)
- (context, US, slang) Have an intense craving.
- I"m jonesing for some basketball.
- 1995, James Lee Burke, Burning Angel, Hyperion, p126
- :... when it's their turn to talk, they speak in coonass blue-collar accents about jonesing for crack and getting UA-ed by probation officers.
- 2001, Sheridan Becker & Jayne Young, Savvy in the City: New York City, p3
- : If you for wheat grass, this is your destination.
- 2007, Jonathan Nasaw, Twenty-Seven Bones, Simon & Schuster, p258
- :The rain tree at sunset was exquisite, but after a few minutes Pender found himself jonesing' for a football game.
Etymology: (unreferenced)Ed Boland, in w:The New York Times, The New York Times, March 2002, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in w:New York City, New York City between w:Broadway (New York City), Broadway and w:Lafayette High School (New York City), Lafayette High School, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer.Dan Waldorf (1992, Cocaine Changes, p301) explains that the noun use originated from heroin users.
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