Meanings
- Multicultural London EnglishslangOne one's own.
I still don't know, still don't know what to do I'm on my ones I'm getting funds
2017, Mickz, “C4ll M3”2 more examples
2013, [gang] Member 39, quoted in How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence by J. Densley If you [are] on your ones and someone comes up to you, 'What you got for me bruv?', you look at them in the eye, talk to them straight in the eye, stand your ground[…]
Charlie melts into his mattress Watching Twin Peaks on his ones Then his fingers find a bottle When he starts to miss his mum
2020, Arlo Parks, “Hurt”
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