KJ

English

Etymology 1

Probably an initialism of crystal (“phencyclidine”) + joint (“marijuana cigarette”).[1]

Noun

KJ (countable and uncountable, plural KJs)

  1. (slang, US) Phencyclidine (PCP); also, a marijuana cigarette laced with phencyclidine.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:phencyclidine
    • 2018, Tommy Orange, “Calvin Jonhson”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 92:
      This was some other shit, what they smoked, could have been fucking angel dust sprinkled on, they called that KJ. Shit, knowing them that’s exactly why I couldn’t stop my head from bobbing, and why the streetlights were so fucking bright, and mean seeming, and, like, too red. I was glad I only hit it once.

Etymology 2

Noun

KJ (plural KJs)

  1. (Philippines) Abbreviation of killjoy.

References

  1. ^ “k.j. n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkad͡ʒe/

Noun

KJ (plural KJ-KJ)

  1. (education) initialism of kelas jauh (“distance class”)
  2. (medicine) initialism of kedokteran jiwa (“psychiatry”, literally “soul medicine”)
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