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jones

UK/d͡ʒəʊnz//d͡ʒoʊnz/

jones noun: heroin. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of jone.

Noun

jones (plural joneses)

  1. (US, archaic, slang) Heroin.
    • You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p. 196
    • Defendant responded by saying he had some "Jones", a term used to describe heroin.1975, unknown author, Northwestern Reporter, page 512
  2. (US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.
    • I’ve got a basketball jones!
    • ... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, MacMillan, page 262

Verb

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

  1. (US, slang, transitive, usually) To 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 night1989, Beastie Boys, Shake Your Rump, 0:06
  2. (US, intransitive, slang) To binge on cocaine or alcohol.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jones

Jones (countable and uncountable, plural Joneses or Jonesses)

  1. An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.
    • It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.1886, Miss M. A. R. Tucker, “St. David's”, in Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine & Bibliographical Review
    • If you had done anything drastic you would have told me so in your letter. You would have said, ‘Dear Peter, I have a case to submit to you; but before doing so I think it only right to inform you that I am engaged to Mr. Jones of Jesus.’
      […]
      ”Good God!” said Wimsey, turning to Harriet. “Is this by...1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
  2. A locality in Kenora District, north-west Ontario, Canada.
  3. A municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines.
  4. An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama.
  5. An unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois.
  6. An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
  7. An unincorporated community in Cass County, Michigan.
  8. A town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
  9. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
  10. Two townships, in Elk County, Pennsylvania and Beltrami County, Minnesota, listed under Jones Township.
  11. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Jones County.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Jones

Jones

  1. (plural) plural of Jone

Also used as

jones is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of jone.

jones meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

jones in Hindi

जोन्स

jones in Tamil

ஜோன்ஸ், ஜோன்ஸிடம்

jones in Marathi

जोन्स, जोन्सला

jones in Urdu

جونز, جونس
More languagesFewer languages
jones in Bengali
জোনস, জোন্স, জোন্সের কাছে
jones in Telugu
జోన్స్
jones in Malayalam
ജോൺസ്, ജോൺസിനോട്
jones in Kannada
ಜೋನ್ಸ್
jones in Punjabi
ਜੋਨਸ, ਜੋਨਜ਼
jones in Gujarati
જોન્સ, જોન્સને
jones in Odia
ଜୋନ୍ସ, ଜୋନ୍ସ୍, ଜୋନ୍ସଙ୍କୁ
jones in Nepali
जोन्स, जोनस, जोनस्

Examples of jones in a sentence

  • Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?2001, Terminus Est, “Re: Nothing to Fear but Pain Itself”, in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet):
  • "On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a jones.1992, Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, HarperCollins, page 93:
  • And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
  • If you have a jones for one of these old tape-tanglers but lack the cash, space, and/or patience necessary to acquire, house and maintain one, consider M-Tron.2003, Ken Hughes, edited by Jim Aikin, Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments, Backbeat Books, page 64:

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Forms of jones

Noun
pluraljoneses
Verb
third-person singular presentjoneses
present participlejonesing
past participlejonesed
pastjonesed
Proper noun
pluralJoneses
pluralJonesses

Origin of jones

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Genitive of John.

Words formed from jones

Phrases with jones

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with jones

Questions about jones

What does jones mean?
Jones means heroin.
What is jones in Hindi?
Jones in Hindi is जोन्स. See Jones meaning in Hindi.
How do you use jones in a sentence?
Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?
What part of speech is jones?
Jones can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jones?
Jones is pronounced /d͡ʒoʊnz/ (US).
What is the plural of jones?
The plural of jones is joneses.

Words near jones in the dictionary

  1. Joncanoe
  2. jone
  3. joned
  4. Jonelle
  5. Jonerys
  6. jones
  7. Jones Bridge
  8. Jones County
  9. Jones diagram
  10. Jones diagrams
  11. Jones Island

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jones (page history and authors); Jones (page history and authors); jones (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jones (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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