ghetto

Plural: ghetti, ghettoes, ghettos

Noun

• formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
  • "the Warsaw ghetto"
• any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
  • "the relative security of the gay ghetto"
  • "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
• a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
• An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
• An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
• An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
• An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Adj

• Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
• Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
• Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
• Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Verb

Verb Forms: ghettoed, ghettoing, ghettos, ghettoes

• To confine or isolate someone or a group in a restricted area.
• To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

Examples

• He tried to GHETTO his opponent’s letters, limiting their word options.
• I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
• My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!

Synonyms

Hell's Kitchen, bad part of town, barrio, estate, favela, ghetto, ivory tower, jects, projects, scheme, shantytown, sink estate, slum

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