on one's ones

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English

Prepositional phrase

on one's ones

  1. (slang, MLE) One one's own.
    • 2013, 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 []
    • 2017, Mickz (lyrics and music), “C4ll M3”:
      I still don't know, still don't know what to do
      I'm on my ones
      I'm getting funds
    • 2020, Arlo Parks (lyrics and music), “Hurt”:
      Charlie melts into his mattress
      Watching Twin Peaks on his ones
      Then his fingers find a bottle
      When he starts to miss his mum