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Definition of Jonesing
1. jones [v] - See also: jones
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jonesing
Literary usage of Jonesing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"I had to be firm, conciliatory, defiant and tactful all at once, and every hour
I took off for jonesing threatened to blow the business sky- high. ..."
2. The Ten Books of the Merrymakers edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"I had to be firm, conciliatory, defiant and tactful all at once, and every hour
I took off for jonesing threatened to blow the business sky- high. ..."
3. Puerto Rico by Kurt Pitzer, Tara Stevens (2001)
"... 6070 Ave. de Isla Verde, serves bagels with cream cheese, lox and all other
trimmings to visitors jonesing for New York, with prices between $4 and $7. ..."
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