Pjs

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    pajamas; pyjamas abbreviation, childish, colloquial, plural, plural-only, usually
  2. 2
    Initialism of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    Initialism of projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”). US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only, slang

    "We lived in the PJs, that's what we called the projects. It was integrated. The people next door were white, and there weren't that many blacks […]"

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peutz-jeghers syndrome

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"Tom likes wearing his PJs to class."

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