feen

present singular third person feens · participle present feening · participle past feened · past feened

1. slangtransitiveTo want something obsessively; to have a strong desire (for).

   And I feened for him like a crackhead needing a hit.

   2003, Tia L. Lincoln, Child of Baltimore, →ISBN, page 103

   5 more examples

   I can't leave you alone, You got me feenin, feenin', you got me feenin', feenin' (Got me going crazy).

   1993, “Feenin'”, in Diary of a Mad Band, performed by Jodeci

   She feened for both cocaine and heroin too, and she'd almost died when a dealer beat her down for getting tight with his supplier and trying to dip on his product.

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 44

   Can't crack the habit. You see, I'm feening, I'm needing some more and you got me grinning like it's money that I'm winning.

   2014, N.M. Shabazz, HalfBreed, →ISBN, page 157

   Oh yeah. They're feening. They're feening, is what we called it. They're feening for that drug and they're feening for someone to offer it to them.

   2016, Rashi K. Shukla, Methamphetamine: A Love Story, page 117

   “Yeah, I'm feening for some fresh air,” Finn said, using his crutches to get to his feet.

   2019, Sam Kevin Daniel, Crossfire, →ISBN, page 55

   Synonyms: fiend, jones

plural feens

1. IrelandMunsterespeciallyslang(young) man, guy, bloke