A fork of Rural Dictionary
a person that needs, wants, and takes everything all the time.
He just borrowed twenty dollars, what a joneser.
Comes from the street term for heroin, and associated with an addiction or craving. Not affiliated with 'keeping up with the jones'.
It's Friday night and I'm jonesing for a drink!
She was jonesing him at the concert.
longing for a place or desire for a type of food. Missing something
I've got the Joneses for fried chicken
I've got the Joneses for New York
descriptive of one's working habits-laziness at work
Jones at work: Man what time is it? I want to go home.
Co-worker: It's only 11AM.
Jones: I'm feeling the Jonesitis - I'm outta here! Keep it real!
comes from neighborhood crack addict/favorite local "Mr. Jones" of Madison, Wisconsin who would wander State Street looking to score.
You wanna go downtown? You look like you're jonesing real bad.
The act of submitting a change to a Git repository by making significantly more commits than necessary because you want to get more green on your GitHub profile
"I better update all my projects' license files since it's 2017 and I'm jonesing for that green!"
"Dude, half of your commits for this PR are fixing formatting. There's keeping your code clean, and then there is blatantly jonesing!"