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▪ I. Jones|dʒəʊnz|
1. One of the commonest British family names, used esp. in the plural to designate one's neighbours or social equals, as in phrase to keep up with the Joneses: see keep v. 57 j; now usu. with allusion to this phrase.
1879E. J. Simmons Mem. Station Master (1974) vi. 83 There is a considerable amount of importance attached to this public place of meeting—the railway station. The Jones's who don't associate with the Robinsons, meet there. Mr Jones would not like the station master to touch his cap to the Robinsons, and pass him without notice. 1932E. C. Harwood Cause & Control of Business Cycle x. 124 Why..does John Doe choose to speculate on margin?.. An ages-old desire to get something for nothing; keeping up with the Joneses; [etc.]. 1955J. Cannan Long Shadows vii. 106 On a higher scale you're simply outdoing the Joneses. 1959‘L. Gibb’ (title) The Joneses: how to keep up with them. 1959Times 18 Sept. 14/5 By addressing Mr. and Mrs. Jones through The Reader's Digest, you thus exert a selling leverage [etc.]..that's Jonesmanship. 1962Friend 29 June 801/1 What we decide will be affected by whether we think morals are something stuck on to people by outside pressure (law, custom, tradition, and ‘what the Joneses do’) or whether they are an outcome of our nature. 1967Guardian 3 Jan. 4/7, I pretended not to hear..but in the end you follow the Jones. 1967G. Household Courtesy of Death 38 Dunton..avoided any nonsense of competing with Joneses.
2. slang. A drug addict's habit.
1968Sun Mag. (Baltimore) 13 Oct. 19/4 Soon you're out to keep from getting the Jones. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 71 Jones, a fixation; drug habit; compulsive attachment. 1971Black World Mar. 54/1, I don't have a long jones. I ain't been on it too long. 1971E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 113 Jones, the habit of a drug addict—eg. His jones is heavy. 1974Publishers Weekly 12 Aug. 50/2 Knows the reality of Detroit's heroin sub-culture as few of those who are not ‘Jones men’ do. (‘Jones’ stands for both heroin and the habit.)
▸ U.S. slang. a. Symptoms of withdrawal from heroin or another drug.
1965C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land x. 272 My jones is on me; it's on me something terrible. I feel so sick. 1974J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger vii. 99, I was using half a bundle a day, twelve bags, and dope was easy to get. I didn't know what a ‘Jones’ (a habit coming down) was. I never had to be sick. 1989P. Benchley Rummies vii. 81 I'm on a bad fuckin' jones. 2000A. Neville et al. Brothers (2001) 177, I didn't know where to score and, going through my jones, grew desperately sick.
b. Any intense craving or desire. Cf. yen n.2 2.
1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 71 Jones, a fixation..; compulsive attachment. 1971Black World Oct. 62 Blind people got a hummin jones if you notice. 1991Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 7 Aug. 4/2 She's been on a Tony Hillerman kick lately and she can't shake that mystery jones. 1998J. Manos & D. Chase College in Sopranos (television shooting script) 1st Ser. 17, I have a jones for your baked ziti.
▪ II. Jones, v. U.S. slang.
Brit. |dʒəʊnz|, U.S. |dʒoʊnz|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ Jones n.]
1. intr. To experience the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin; (later also) to feel a physical craving for any addictive substance. Also with down. Usu. in pres. pple.
1971Kennebec (Maine) Jrnl. 28 Oct. 33/5 How many stayed off drugs after ‘Jonesing down’ at an Army amnesty center? 1986Washington Post 14 May (Health section) 14/3 When the cocaine supply ran out, he and people with him began ‘Jonesing’. 1994J. Favreau Swingers (film script, 3rd draft) 47 Gimme my reds [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes]. I've been jonesing for an hour. 2004L. Miscione Twice 59 ‘Can you help an old man out?’ asked Charlie, looking like he was jonesing a bit, his foot tapping, his mouth moving as if he were chewing an invisible piece of gum.
2. intr. In extended use. To feel an intense craving or desire for something. Freq. with for. Usu. in pres. pple.
1989P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 53 She's jonesing for those diamond earrings. 1994Hypno 3 iii. 66/3 We're not just mentally prepared, we're totally jonesing to see the murders acted out! 2002Elle Mar. 256/2 If you're still jonesing for more adrenaline, you can brave the white-water rapids or rappel every mountain in sight. |