jects
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Noun edit
jects pl (plural only)
- (US, slang) A multi-story low-income housing development; projects.
- 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 264:
- A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get out of the jects. […]
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “'jects”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang