Heds Up: This headline writer was smokin'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Semantically parallel to the older "yen."

JL

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On May 2, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Doug Harris wrote:

> ... "Murdoch Has Jones for Dow, But Controlling Family Plans Veto
> (E&P)"
>
> Jones, according to the website www.yaelf.com/slang.shtml, (under
> 'The Great Jones', refers to "an addiction to drugs."
> Is there another meaning?

yes.  in "have a jones for" it means 'hankering, desire, lust'.

arnold

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