PJs

noun — 2 senses

PJs

noun
1

Abbreviation, Childish, Colloquial, Usually pajamas; pyjamas

2

US, Abbreviation, Initialism, Slang Initialism of projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”).

  • We lived in the PJs, that's what we called the projects. It was integrated. The people next door were white, and there weren't that many blacks […]1996, Murray Dubin, South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner, page 64:
  • He had to win over the children in the PJs. Come rain or shine, he continued to walk his parish.2008, Eric Gutierrez, Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church, page 62:

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