Getting my jones on

Posted by ESC on May 23, 2008 at 10:14

In Reply to: Getting my jones on posted by Katie on May 23, 2008 at 08:54:

: What does "getting my jones on" mean?

I haven't heard "jones" used in this manner. But I don't get out much.

JONES - 1. A strong, overwhelming desire for anything you indulge in or acquire and never get enough of - money, sex, chocolate, gambling, clothes, etc. Originally referred to addiction to h****n or c*****e. 2. P***s. From Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman (Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, N.Y., 1994)

jones - noun. From family name; semantic development unknown. Originally Black English. 1. narc. a. drug addiction, especially to h****n. 1962 Maurer & Vogel, Narc. Add., (ed. 2) 308: Jones: A drug habit. From Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 2, H-O by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994.