You seem like a smart kid, and dont get me wrong here, we dont want to see you all fucked up, cracked out butt naked on 4th street in the bad side of town, lookin to fuck the 1st millionaire willing to fork over some jones money.
2001, Terminus Est, Re: Nothing to Fear but Pain Itself, alt.support.depression.manic, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.depression.manic/msg/e0f97132175dad95?dmode=source
Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?
1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, MacMillan, p. 262
... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.
1992, Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, HarperCollins, p. 93
"On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a jones. They got a crack jones or a smack jones, ..."
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.
2003, Ken Hughes in Jim Aikin (ed.), Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments, Backbeat Books, p. 64
If you have a jones for one of these old tape-tanglers but lack the cash, space, and/or patience necessary to acquire, house and maintain one, consider M-Tron.
puhekieltä Have an intense craving.
I’m jonesing for some basketball.
1989, Beastie Boys, Shake Your Rump, 0:06
A lot of people they be jonesing just to hear me rock the mic / They'll be staring at the radio, staying up all night
1995, James Lee Burke, Burning Angel, Hyperion, p. 126
... when it's their turn to talk, they speak in coonass blue-collar accents about jonesing for crack and getting UA-ed by probation officers.