Another word for the "slums". It is used generally in references to a dangerous place.
John: Where are you goin this weekend?
James: I'm off to the ghetto to smoke cones.
John: Oh, just dont get stabbed
by squeek little bitch April 5, 2006
Get the Ghetto mug.
1. a place where people are barely getting by in life.
2. a term used for something not on the same status as you.
3. a term used for a rundown object
1. I feel sorry for that guy, he lives in the ghetto.
2. " Oh my god that outfit is ghetto"
3. That binder is ghetto.
by Katerina Stevens May 14, 2006
Get the ghetto mug.
The state of your feet 6 weeks after you've had a pedicure, especially if you tried to make them look better by filling them in with a similar color nail polish.
Sister, those ghettoes are nasty! You need to get a pedicure.
by JK Laura Lester October 26, 2011
Get the ghettoes mug.
The word dat them whites use ta describe da blacks nd talkin like dem.
Gurl 1: Guuurrrrrrrrlllllllll ahm ghetto!
Gurl 2: Lmao yhuu knoee itt.
by SlimmShadyyBiiiiiichh. April 26, 2011
Get the Ghetto mug.
adjective.

substandard & undesirable (like an impoverished and unmaintained neighborhood).
by daddybearluvsyou March 3, 2010
Get the ghetto mug.
Anything that would not look out of place in world war 2 Warsaw
This train is utterly ghetto
But your house is utterly ghetto
If I wanted something this ghetto, I'd be in Poland
This is more ghetto than the walled areas in World War II Poland
by Matthew Garrett October 20, 2005
Get the ghetto mug.
ok lemme qive yu da defination of :

ghetto: a lifestyle influenced by mostly musiq,clothinq,people,etc ; bad ass motherfucker ; trashy shit ;people label this as beinq black only.no it's not about being blk....blk people were the first ones to be qhetto but itz not bout being just blk...everyone shuld be who they fuckin' want to be..ok if a hispanic person wanna be qhetto cuz they think their culture is wack & think that beinq qhetto isx better to them then i think it'sz there choice.COlOR doesn't mean anything .Wats the difference ? i mean if a blk person want act like their proper...then that's they want to be ! . color shouldn't stop you from being yourself.pleaze dont qive me that excuse that beinq proper is better then beinq qhetto.qhetto iz not bout beinq someone..it'z just the way you live.im tired of people saying you have to be blk or hispanic to be qhetto.damn qet a life or something instead of judqinq ; only god can judqe me ; disagree wit me if you want i dont give a f*** .
im a hispanic dat luk "white" but im labeled as "qhetto" cuz of the way i talk and act and dress.im not tryna be blk.it'sz just a lifestyle im livinqq cuz i live around da ghetto.to be honest ; i dont label myself as anything.i know im not qhetto,preppy,qanqsta,emo,goth,etc.im ME .
by diZ iZ lanii =] May 10, 2009
Get the ghetto mug.