He's got a major jones for her. A slang term for heroin. An addiction to heroin. An extreme desire for something such as a drug, a food, etc. To long for or desire something in such a way.
Indiana Jones can make even that lame-ass fedora look cool. My brother just got shot in a drive-by, trying to score some jones off his dealer. Tom has taken up clawing at his flesh as a counter-measure to deal with his jones.
I woke my girlfriend up and made her drive me all the way to Wal-mart when I started jonesing for some Cherry Coke. Desire for something that may be sought irrespective of the consequences.. Slang dictionary jonesing [ johnz - ing] What does jonesing mean? What's hot. Where does jonesing come from?
Have you been jonesing to get back to public beta testing after the holiday lag? You're in luck. Apple has just released iOS This first public beta of could be the last before Popular now. Who uses jonesing? Etymonline suggests that it rose from a use of Jones as slang for heroin:. The slang sense "intense desire, addiction" probably arose from earlier use of Jones as a synonym for "heroin," presumably from the proper name, but the connection, if any, is obscure.
Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang traces the slang term jones as a noun to and as a verb to Jones , common family name; semantic devel. Black E. A drug habit. I've got a jones. You mean you got a little Jones huh? The most striking thing about these detailed entries besides the fact that Lighter traces the slang term back to is that Lighter thinks the sexual meaning of jones namely, "penis" was "Prob. In this connection, it is perhaps worth noting that Lighter finds examples of johnson another common last name as a slang term for penis from sources as early as Jonathon Green, Chambers Slang Dictionary confirms the meanings noted by Lighter and adds that drug addiction is sometimes referred to as "Mr.
Jones drug addiction, esp. Clarence Major, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang recognizes the addiction sense of jones , but not the sexual sense of the word:. Jones n. H[erbert] L[. S[outhern and] N[orthern] U[se. JONES 1 A strong, overwhelming desire for anything you indulge in or acquire and never get enough of—money, sex, chocolate, gambling, clothes, etc.
Originally referred to addition to heroin or cocaine. Pop-culture landmarks such as Trainspotting note the similarity of intense feeling between heroin and sex.
If they are to be believed, it is not surprising that a slang term such as jones might begin by referring to one of the two and later be applied to the other as Lighter seems to imply. Alternatively, as Green suggests, the two terms may have evolved independently of one another. I am not persuaded by the claim evidently proposed by the Online Rap Dictionary some 37 years after the earliest instance of jones that Lighter cites that jones originally alluded to Jones Alley in Manhattan.
It's a simple, convenient explanation, but as far as I know it has no paper trail to back it up. Here is the complete entry for jones in the Online Rap Dictionary :. Jones noun A craving for something. It is said to come from Jones Alley in Manhattan where junkies used to live. Blige You're all I need []. That's not much of a factual basis to hang a dictionary etymology on. I might be more inclined to take the claimed source seriously if Claude Brown, whose semi-autobiographical novel Manchild in the Promised Land is set in Harlem above th Street in Manhattan and refers to "a jones"—in the drug sense—at least four times, had mentioned Jones Alley or Great Jones Street which are located in NoHo, the area just north of Houston Street, between Greenwich Village and the East Village even once; but he doesn't.
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