[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jones" (= Addiction)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Jones (OED, 2., 1968)

Dave Wilton's brilliant website, wordorigins.org, states: "The first known use of jones in this context is the 1962 edition of Maurer and Vogel’s Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction which glosses jones as 'a drug habit.'"

Fred Shapiro

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