jects

A multi-story low-income housing development; projects.

Noun

  1. A multi-story low-income housing development; projects.
    • 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. […] - 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No...
    • Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects. - 2006 December 28, TJ Xenos [username], “Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
    • "Whattaya expect? We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers. - 2010, Carol Taylor, The Ex Chronicles, New York N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 200:

Origin

Clipping of projects.

Forms

'jects