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PJs en · NOUN

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1. (abbreviation, childish, colloquial, plural, plural-only, usually) pajamas; pyjamas
2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only, slang) Initialism of projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”).
   alt of projects
   • 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:
   • 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:

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