Definition of "jones" in English

noun

1. (US, slang, now rare) Heroin.

   • You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?

2. (US, slang) An addiction or intense craving.

   • I’ve got a basketball jones!
   • And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.

verb

1. (US, slang) Have an intense craving.

   • I’m jonesing for some basketball.

2. (US, slang) To binge on cocaine and/or alcohol.

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jone