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Getto or redneck garbage-can 

When you buy a case of beer, put the beer in the fridge and use the box as your kitchen garbage can
After you drink your Iron City you must use your getto garbage can.

ghetto garbage 

The urban counterpart to trailer trash. A nonracist description of the the speech, dress, mannerisms, and/or behavior of the low-class urban poor, regardless of race or ethnicity.

A typical piece of ghetto garbage can be identified as such: males wear pants or shorts three or four sizes too big, hanging halfway down their behinds, with their underwear showing; females are often seen with shirts small enough for their little kid sisters to fit into. Both sexes speak as if they were illiterate wannabe rappers, curse practically every other word, and are often loud enough to wake the dead! These people show no class whatsoever.

They try put on a "tough" act, trying to intimidate civilized human beings, but in fact it's all a cover to overcompensate for their intellectual inadequacy. Ghetto garbage show no respect for their elders or legitimate authority figures, but they will brownnose sociopaths and other violent criminal types.
Ghetto garbage inhabit not only the inner cities, but also are on the rise in suburban and even rural areas.
That sagging Roca Wear doesn't look right on me. It makes me look like ghetto garbage!

Cut out that ghetto talk, kid! I didn't raise you to be ghetto garbage!
ghetto garbage by meow2u3 May 22, 2009

Ghetto Garbage 

A group of people who lack any decent characteristics. They are known for being Loud, in-your-face, and downright obnoxious people. they fad with cloths that are 'trendy' (Men wearing hoodies, baggy pants, and/or too much jewelry; females who wear almost too little) and usually have no respect for authority or elder figures. Feels violence solves everything and talk with butchered English (Or ebonics), curse often, and drink, smoke, or do some sort of substances that will kill them early. They are the bottom of the barrel scumbags of the city and are slowly spreading into urban area's. This is trash that fouls up neighborhoods.
Nicole: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU FUCKING WANT YOU FUCKING FAGGOT!?

Gary: Nothing from you, ms. ghetto garbage.
Ghetto Garbage by vyselash October 17, 2010

Ghetto Garage Sale 

When one of the neighbors get evicted and you pick through their things after the landlord puts their stuff on the lawn.
"Awesome dragon shaped coffee table dude! Where did you get it? Ghetto garage sale man."
Ghetto Garage Sale by CynWrenn September 10, 2011
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Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
Word of the Day on September 29, 2026
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
Word of the Day on September 28, 2026
NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
Word of the Day on September 27, 2026

Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
Word of the Day on September 24, 2026
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