vonce

vonce noun: marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug. Also the pronunciation spelling of once.

Noun (1)

vonce (countable and uncountable, plural vonces)

(US, slang) Marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.

Synonyms:

marijuana
(Yiddish) Something or someone small and annoying. Used more as a term of endearment than a criticism.
- Last week, I was coming home in the secluded dark of the just-post-solstice Hudson River Greenway. I vaguely make out a... well, a vonce would be the correct term. A little annoying thing in my mirror.2006 January 10, Andy Gee, “Two events having to do with China”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet)
- “Promise you'll come and visit your tanteh soon or I won't let you go, my little vonce!” said his aunt, tightening her hold.2005, Jack Henry Markowitz, The Practice and Other Stories and Selected Poems, →ISBN, page 49
Synonyms:

nuisance

vonce

(slang) Sexual activity.
- Like we first met' and Checking in a lot of Hotels with those Twin Beds, my my how Lucille + I suffered every time that we did the Vonce (sex) you know?2001, Louis Armstrong, Thomas David Brothers, Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings, →ISBN
- When you ain't sharin' sex with the one you love, you jest havin' sex, or, like the young folk say, you doin' the nasty. Doin' the vonce, what they called it back in my day.2001, Aine A. Thang, Ms. Thang's Guide to Fly, →ISBN, page 23
(slang, jazz) A state in which the musician produces great improvisation intuitively.
- Re-hearing the Curtis Mayfield-avant soul of "Judgment", the proto-acid jazz groove vonce of "Tune Up", the neo-soul slow drag prophecy of "Rosemary Blue" (penned by Neil Sedaka!) 25 years later, I know now that I totally slept on a most seminal pop vocal album.1999, Jazz Times - Volume 29, Issues 6-10, page 38
- "Man, when I was with Basie," he'd say, "we'd come up on the vonce, and the man would put the ding-ding here."2009, George Wein, Nate Chinen, Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, →ISBN, page 92

vonce (plural vonces)

(US, slang, term of abuse) A jerk; an unpleasant person.
- That "Legs," I hate it and the little vonce knows it, so of course he's hittin me where I live, my lousy bowlegs.1963, Irvin Faust, Entering Angel's world: a student-centered casebook, page 57
- Is that strict, you fucking vonce? Sorry to use such language in front of a woman2001, David Mamet, Heist, Burbank, CA: Warner Bros, →ISBN

vonce is also the pronunciation spelling of once.

Soldiers, but whatever it stood for, it was a place where we could drink our rum, smoke our cigarettes, and “do the vonce”—a nickname for making love.2011, Clark Terry, Gwen Terry, Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry, →ISBN, page 72:
Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar.2009, Skoot Larson, The Dig You Later, Alligator Blues: A Lars Lindstrom Zen-Jazz Mystery, →ISBN:
That little vonce – that cockroach – shouldn't be anywhere near my place.2011, Linda Fairstein, Death Dance, →ISBN:

plural	vonces

Borrowed from Yiddish וואַנץ (vants, “bedbug”), by analogy to the English slang term roach. Attested since the 1950s.

Uncertain; possibly from German Schwanz (“tail, slang for penis”) or Yiddish שוואַנץ (shvants, “penis”).

Uncertain; Possibly either of the etymologies listed above. Attested since the 1960s.

What does vonce mean?: Vonce means marijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.
How do you use vonce in a sentence?: Soldiers, but whatever it stood for, it was a place where we could drink our rum, smoke our cigarettes, and “do the vonce”—a nickname for making love.
What part of speech is vonce?: Vonce is a noun.
What is the plural of vonce?: The plural of vonce is vonces.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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