Jones
📖 Definitions
noun
1 One’s neighbors or social equals. Typically used in the phrase: keeping up with the Joneses.
noun
2. An addiction or craving, especially for drugs.
verb intr.
To have an intense longing.
💬 Usage Examples
“Dunton had kept his private life completely separate from his profession and avoided any nonsense of competing with Joneses.” Geoffrey Household; The Courtesy of Death; Brown; 1967. “And aren’t we all always jonesing for a way out or in, a better deal, a shorter distance to x, more y.” Ellen Doré Watson; In Which We Are What We Repeatedly Do; Ploughshares (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Spring 2022.