jones

jones

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English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /d͡ʒoʊnz/
  • Rhymes: -oʊnz
  • Homophone: Jones (US)

Etymology 1

Ed Boland, in The New York Times, March 2002, 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.

Noun

jones (plural joneses)

  1. (US, slang, now rare) Heroin.
    • 1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p. 196
      You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
  2. (US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.
    I’ve got a basketball jones!
    • 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
      And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
Derived terms

Verb

jones (third-person singular simple present joneses, present participle jonesing, simple past and past participle jonesed)

  1. (US, slang) Have an intense craving.
    I’m jonesing for some basketball.
  2. (US, slang) To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

jones

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jone

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