on one's ones

Definitions

One one's own.

Multicultural-London-English, slang

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[…]”

“I still don't know⟳, still don't know⟳ what to do I'm on my ones I'm getting funds”

“Charlie melts into his mattress Watching Twin Peaks on his ones Then his fingers find⟳ a bottle When he starts to miss⟳ his mum”

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