Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) the head.

1870		Putnam’s Mag. Mar. 301: The combatants struck each other [...] upon the head, the nut, the cone [HDAS].
1874		J.H. Carter Log of Commodore Rollingpin 188: Well, it wa’nt a fly that lit / On the side of his convex cone that day .

2. (Aus.) the nose.

1924

G.H. Lawson Dict. of Aus. Words And Terms 🌐 CONE – The nose.

3. (Aus. drugs) a metal cone with a hole in the centre, usu. made of aluminium or brass and used for smoking cannabis.

1982		Tracks Mar. 5: I am sitting here smoking cones / Thinking of you Sydney clones.
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 44: Feel like a cone? [...] You make the mull, I’ll pack ’em.
1997		L. Davies Candy 24: We pulled some cones and I really could have done with a big sleep.
2007		D. McDonald Luck in the Greater West (2008) 81: The cone wasn’t fully smoked, but he was too stoned already.

4. (US drugs) a conical cannabis cigarette, which is tapered by rolling with two or more papers glued at an angle.

1985		‘Jennifer Blowdryer’ Modern English 79: fat joints (n): Spliff; Cone Joint.
1986		R.G. Barrett Real Thing 126: He’d mulled up enough dope for about four little cones.
1999		Indep. Rev. 19 Aug. 5: The basic social event [...] of smoking-chuffing-drawing a few joints-spliffs-cones is largely taken for granted.
2004		A. Mansbach ‘Crown Heist’ in Brooklyn Noir 124: Puffing one of those big-ass Bob Marley cone spliffs.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 36: Two immaculate cones stashed there [...] one’s pure grass.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 279: He’s used to [...] skinny jail zoots, not these fat cones full of loud.

5. (Aus. drugs) a single cannabis-filled water-pipe or bong n.¹ (1)

1998

R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Warren and Debbie were [...] pulling cones from a bong on the coffee table while they tore into about a gallon of vodka.