Jects

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A multi-story low-income housing development; projects. US, plural, plural-only, slang

    "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. […]"

Etymology

Clipping of projects.

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