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English
Etymology
Clipping of projects.
Noun
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. […]
2006 December 28, TJ Xenos , “Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects.
2010, Carol Taylor, The Ex Chronicles, New York N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 200:"Whattaya expect? We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers.
2011, Garrett S. King, Something to Live For, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 116:Olander grew up around the “jects,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.
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