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on one's ones

on one's ones prepositional phrase: one one's own.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) One one's own.
    • If you [are] on your ones and someone comes up to you, 'What you got for me bruv?', you look at them in the eye, talk to them straight in the eye, stand your ground[…]2013, [gang] Member 39, quoted in How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence by J. Densley
    • I still don't know, still don't know what to do
      I'm on my ones
      I'm getting funds2017, Mickz, “C4ll M3”

Questions about on one's ones

What does on one's ones mean?
On one's ones means one one's own.
What part of speech is on one's ones?
On one's ones is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on one's ones in the dictionary

  1. on one's lonesome
  2. on one's Ls
  3. on one's mark
  4. on one's mettle
  5. on one's mind
  6. on one's ones
  7. on one's own
  8. on one's own account
  9. on one's own bat
  10. on one's own ground
  11. on one's own hook

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