"jones" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1965, Amiri Baraka, The Alternative, as cited in Peter Bruck (ed.), The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century, John Benjamins, p. 196",
          "text": "You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?"
        },
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          "ref": "1975, unknown author, Northwestern Reporter, page 512",
          "text": "Defendant responded by saying he had some \"Jones\", a term used to describe heroin.",
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          "ref": "2000, Priest Opiast Ogden, “Re: Questions about Percocet, Ativan & Xanax”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet)",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Terminus Est, “Re: Nothing to Fear but Pain Itself”, in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet)",
          "text": "Which erodes \"quality of life\" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?",
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        {
          "text": "I’ve got a basketball jones!"
        },
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          "text": "... I've got a jones,\" and she dropped her head.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, HarperCollins, page 93",
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          "ref": "1992, Anonymous as cited in Dan Waldorf, Cocaine Changes, Temple University Press, p. 126",
          "text": "And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ken Hughes, edited by Jim Aikin, Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments, Backbeat Books, page 64",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(US, slang) An addiction or intense craving."
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          "roman": "žaždátʹ",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "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.",
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      "word": "жажда́ть"
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      "expansion": "jones",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "jone"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "third-person singular simple present indicative of jone"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jone",
          "jone#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/d͡ʒoʊnz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʊnz"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Jones (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-jones.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/En-us-jones.ogg/En-us-jones.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/En-us-jones.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jones"
}