PJs

attributive PJ · alternative pj's · alternative PJ's

1. abbreviationchildishcolloquialpluralplural onlyusuallypajamas; pyjamas
2. USabbreviationinitialismpluralplural onlyslangInitialism of projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”).

   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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   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

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.