jones

Etymology 1
Ed Boland, in The New York Times, March 2002, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off 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.

Noun

 * 1)  Heroin.
 * 2) * 1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p. 196
 * You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
 * 1)  An addiction or intense craving.
 * I’ve got a basketball jones!
 * 1) * 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
 * 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 basketball jones!
 * 1) * 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
 * And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
 * 1) * 1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126
 * And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.

Translations

 * German: ,

Verb

 * 1)  Have an intense craving.
 * I’m jonesing for some basketball.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
 * 1)  To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.

Translations

 * German: ,
 * Russian: ,