jects

English

Alternative forms

• 'jects

Etymology

Clipping of projects.

Noun

jects pl (plural only)

1. (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 [username], “Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard...”, in rec.music.hip-hop‎^[1] (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.

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “'jects”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang