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'jects

'jects is the alternative form of jects.

Meaning of jects

Noun

jects pl (plural only)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only, slang) 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 Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 264

Questions about 'jects

What is 'jects the alternative form of?
'jects is the alternative form of jects.

Words near 'jects in the dictionary

  1. 'istorical
  2. 'istory
  3. 'it
  4. 'its
  5. 'ittin'
  6. 'jects
  7. 'kay
  8. 'keeper
  9. 'keepers
  10. 'keet
  11. 'keets

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