1879 E. J. Simmons Mem. Station Master (1974) vi. 83 There is a considerable amount of importance attached to this public place of meeting—the railway station. The Jones's who don't associate with the Robinsons, meet there. Mr Jones would not like the station master to touch his cap to the Robinsons, and pass him without notice.

1932 E. C. Harwood Cause & Control of Business Cycle x. 124 Why..does John Doe choose to speculate on margin?.. An ages-old desire to get something for nothing; keeping up with the Joneses; [etc.].

1955 J. Cannan Long Shadows vii. 106 On a higher scale you're simply outdoing the Joneses.

1959 ‘L. Gibb’ (title) The Joneses: how to keep up with them.

1959 Times 18 Sept. 14/5 By addressing Mr. and Mrs. Jones through The Reader's Digest, you thus exert a selling leverage [etc.]..that's Jonesmanship.

1962 Friend 29 June 801/1 What we decide will be affected by whether we think morals are something stuck on to people by outside pressure (law, custom, tradition, and ‘what the Joneses do’) or whether they are an outcome of our nature.

1967 Guardian 3 Jan. 4/7 I pretended not to hear..but in the end you follow the Jones.

1967 G. Household Courtesy of Death 38 Dunton..avoided any nonsense of competing with Joneses.

1968 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. (Mag.) 19/4 Soon you're out to keep from getting the Jones.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 71 Jones, a fixation; drug habit; compulsive attachment.

1971 Black World Mar. 54/1 I don't have a long jones. I ain't been on it too long.

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 113 Jones, the habit of a drug addict—eg. His jones is heavy.

1974 Publishers Weekly 12 Aug. 50/2 Knows the reality of Detroit's heroin sub-culture as few of those who are not ‘Jones men’ do. (‘Jones’ stands for both heroin and the habit.)

1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land x. 272 My jones is on me; it's on me something terrible. I feel so sick.

1974 J. Willwerth Jones: Portrait of Mugger vii. 99 I was using half a bundle a day, twelve bags, and dope was easy to get. I didn't know what a ‘Jones’ (a habit coming down) was. I never had to be sick.

1989 P. Benchley Rummies vii. 81 I'm on a bad fuckin' jones.

2000 A. Neville et al. Brothers (2001) 177 I didn't know where to score and, going through my jones, grew desperately sick.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 71 Jones, a fixation..; compulsive attachment.

1971 Black World Oct. 62 Blind people got a hummin jones if you notice.

1991 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 7 Aug. 4/2 She's been on a Tony Hillerman kick lately and she can't shake that mystery jones.

1998 J. Manos & D. Chase College (HBO TV shooting script) 17 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) I have a jones for your baked ziti.

1971 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 28 Oct. 33/5 How many stayed off drugs after ‘Jonesing down’ at an Army amnesty center?

1986 Washington Post 14 May (Health section) 14/3 When the cocaine supply ran out, he and people with him began ‘Jonesing’.

1994 J. Favreau Swingers (film script, 3rd draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 47 Gimme my reds [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes]. I've been jonesing for an hour.

2004 L. Miscione Twice 59 ‘Can you help an old man out?’ asked Charlie, looking like he was jonesing a bit, his foot tapping, his mouth moving as if he were chewing an invisible piece of gum.

1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 53 She's jonesing for those diamond earrings.

1994 Hypno 3 iii. 66/3 We're not just mentally prepared, we're totally jonesing to see the murders acted out!

2002 Elle Mar. 256/2 If you're still jonesing for more adrenaline, you can brave the white-water rapids or rappel every mountain in sight.