jones
Meanings
Plural: joneses
Noun
- United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
- United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
- United States golfer (1902-1971)
- American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
- one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
- English phonetician (1881-1967)
- Heroin.
- An addiction or intense craving.
Verb
- Have an intense craving.
- To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.
- third-person singular simple present indicative of jone
Origin / Etymology
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 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.
Synonyms
Bobby Jones, Casey Jones, Daniel Jones, Inigo Jones, John Luther Jones, John Paul Jones, Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, Robert Tyre Jones
Scrabble Score: 12
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