Jones

/d͡ʒoʊnz/ · noun

Meaning

(US, slang, now rare) Heroin..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US, slang, now rare) Heroin.
2. (US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.
3. (US, slang, transitive, usually followed by for) To have an intense craving for something.
4. (US, slang, intransitive) To binge on cocaine or alcohol.
5. third-person singular simple present indicative of jone

Example Sentences

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?

I’ve got a basketball 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.

... 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, ..."

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Word Forms

• joneses
• jonesing
• jonesed

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