Denise in Webster, New Hampshire, asks about jonesing for, now ordinary slang for craving something badly. It comes from the speech of people using heroin, where jones was already current by 1962 and may go back to the 1950s. The word has done what...
fiending n.— «“Whoever did it,” the man said, “must have been fiending for drugs, that’s all they do around here. They tried to rob an ice cream truck. I mean how much money is on an ice cream truck. That’s stupid.”» —“‘Everybody Is Crying and...
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n.— «“People are fiending for real R&B again,” he says. “All the sampling has brought people’s minds and ears back to real music.”» —“LaBelle ringing” by Gail Mitchell Billboard (U.S.) Sept. 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
fiending n.— «Throughout high school, I watched as many of my friends tried to balance going to class and fiending for the next hit. “Fiending” is just an expression my friends and I use to describe how crazed smokers get when they’re looking for a...
fiending n.— «Almost all can tell tales of confrontations with irate Johns or fellow street people who began “fiending” (striking out in a furious need for more drugs).» —“On Streets To Nowhere” by James Kindall Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) Jan. 21...
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n.— «He was afraid the crack house would sell out. This happens. Cops call it the “fiending” frenzy.» —“Day of Promise, Night of Waste” by Paul Vitello Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) Jan. 22, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
