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Perks
11-27-2005, 07:23 AM
If someone has a 'jones' for something, what's going on with them? And is this a slang term that is widely known and/or used?

(This is to settle a debate that rattled around my house this weekend. Of course, you people being authorities on all things wordy, the parties have agreed to abide by your decision on the matter.)
Richard
11-27-2005, 07:25 AM
Jones - a savage appetite for something, as in 'a jonesing for...'

To be honest, it's one of those words where the context makes it pretty clear even if the person reading doesn't know the slang.
KTC
11-27-2005, 07:30 AM
Exactly. I'm jonesin' for some Chocolate Ice Cream right about now! Gotta get me some!
brokenfingers
11-27-2005, 07:30 AM
Yes, to jones for something is to need it, like an addiction
Dawno
11-27-2005, 07:31 AM
If someone has a 'jones' for something, what's going on with them? And is this a slang term that is widely known and/or used?

(This is to settle a debate that rattled around my house this weekend. Of course, you people being authorities on all things wordy, the parties have agreed to abide by your decision on the matter.)

Urban dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jones)

funny, I used the term "jonesing" in my blog the other day re: the congregation of folks in the AW Chatroom while AW was migrating - it seemed perfect...
katiemac
11-27-2005, 08:32 AM
In the 90s, the term was also used in teenage slang to mean having a crush on someone.
Jamesaritchie
11-27-2005, 10:10 AM
Am I the only one old enough to remember the hit song "Basketball Jones" by Cheech & Chong? Or the song "Love Jones" that it parodied?
SusanR
11-27-2005, 02:28 PM
Am I the only one old enough to remember the hit song "Basketball Jones" by Cheech & Chong? Or the song "Love Jones" that it parodied?

*sigh*

No, you're not.

SusanR
poetinahat
11-27-2005, 02:31 PM
Am I the only one old enough to remember the hit song "Basketball Jones" by Cheech & Chong? Or the song "Love Jones" that it parodied?
I'm witchoo as well. (Except I originally thought it was "Basketball Joe" :Huh:)
KimJo
11-27-2005, 03:51 PM
I always thought this use of "jonesing" came from the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses".
Aconite
11-27-2005, 04:15 PM
I always thought this use of "jonesing" came from the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses".
No, it had to do with heroin.
Avalon
11-27-2005, 06:19 PM
I thought it came from Casey Jones and the Grateful Dead.

Maybe I'd better do my research. :)
Celia Cyanide
11-27-2005, 09:09 PM
We always used it as a craving, like an addiction, and then, just to express how bad we wanted something, we used it to describe other stuff like, I'm jonesin' for a good Hip Hop show right now...
scarletpeaches
11-27-2005, 09:58 PM
I always thought it was rhyming slang for *ahem* a male man's member.

As it having a bone(r) for something.

:ROFL:
scarletpeaches
11-27-2005, 10:00 PM
AH-HA I was right, laugh though you may! Definition seven on Dawno's link.

Scarletpeaches is vindicated - she's not as thick as she thought!!! :Clap: :banana:

Man, I've got a stonking big jones now.
three seven
11-27-2005, 10:09 PM
Man, I've got a stonking big jones now.
http://www.geocities.com/thingumybobwotsit/shocked2.gif

Something you're not telling us, Nichola?
scarletpeaches
11-27-2005, 10:13 PM
http://www.geocities.com/thingumybobwotsit/shocked2.gif

Something you're not telling us, Nichola?

Oh man, that made me cry with laughter.:ROFL:

To make it clear: I am a female woman with all the female woman's bits you would expect, no added extras. :D