jones
nounverbverbcommon in dialogue
- United States//d͡ʒoʊnz//
An addiction or intense craving.
noun
- 1
archaicHeroin.
You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
Defendant responded by saying he had some "Jones", a term used to describe heroin.
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 jones money.
Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?
- 2
slangAn addiction or intense craving.
I’ve got a basketball jones!
... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.
"On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a jones. They got a crack jones or a smack jones, ..."
And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
Etymology
Ed Boland, in an article in March 2002 of the The New York Times, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer. Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of addiction, originated among heroin addicts.
verb
- 1
slangTo have an intense craving for something.
I’m jonesing for some basketball.
A lot of people they be jonesing just to hear me rock the mic / They'll be staring at the radio, staying up all night
... 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.
“I have to go now,” she’d say to the grocery clerk. “My mother-in-law is back at the house, jonesing for her lunch.”
- 2
slangTo binge on cocaine or alcohol.
verb
- 1
Also a form of jonethird-person singular simple present indicative of jone
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Forms
- plural
- joneses
- past tense
- jonesed
- past participle
- jonesed
- present participle
- jonesing
- third person singular
- joneses