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JONES
Definition of JONES
noun
Heroin.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Ed Boland, in an article in March 2002 of the The New York Times, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer.(Can this etymology be sourced?) Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of addiction, originated among heroin addicts.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JONES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JONES starts with J and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EJNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JONES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found JONES?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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