Jects
Origin
From projects by shortening.
Full definition of jects
Noun
jects
(plural only)- (US, informal) A multi-story low-income housing development.
- 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books (1992), ISBN 0385265565, 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 of the jects.
- 2006, 28 December, TJ Xenos username, Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard..., Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects.
- 2011, Garrett S. King, Something to Live For, Xlibris (2011), ISBN 9781456880934, 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.