ghetto 

A ghetto is a poor area with mostly minorities living there, where some people resort to crime to make money. People drug deal and become prostitues because they aren't taxed on money they make illegally so they can keep all of it. A ghetto is generally seen in a negative way but it isn't always a negative place. A place like Harlem, New York was once well known for it's high crime rate and for being the black capital of america, it produced music, jazz, hiphop, rap, poetry, it produced great soul food, and great people so just because a place is all black and has dangerous parts doesn't mean it's good for nothing.

ghettos, good or bad you decide

ghetto by Jersey Kid May 3, 2008

ghetto 

a word which white girls from suburbia use to classify anything that isnt polka dotted/sugar coated.

Jenni:omg we look so ghetto in these nike sneakers!!!

ghetto by nox.the.king July 28, 2006

ghetto 

Where middle to high class kids want to live. Not necessarily white, but this is sometimes the case. They act all ghetto, but if you put them in the REAL ghetto the way they acted for at least 1 weekend, they wouldn't come back acting ghetto-if they come back at all. If they're sane, of course.

Kid whose dad makes $600,000 a year: Yo my nigga, let's go to that store, it ain't got no a/c, that shit it ghetto!
*Dropped off at compton. In first 5 minutes they witness a drive-by 10 steps from them*
Back in rich suburb: damn, bra, we made it in the ghetto for a half-hour! We tha shit dude!

ghetto by Adrian June 26, 2006

ghetto 

Thug means you started at the literal bottom without the help of parents/birth parents/family friends/connections or anyone and made it to the top without the help of family/parents/birth parents/connections.

saads's ghetto
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i know g he aint a spoiled brat like the rest of us who's parents built him up
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i know what a g he did it himself

ghetto by Indian cartel roasted Spics February 15, 2022

ghetto 

A word misused by wannabe rapper/wigger White punks, male and female alike, so they sound more "gangster". When in actuality, if said White punks actually spent some time in a real ghetto they would go running back to their middle/upper class subdivisions crying for mommy AND the police.

You 12 - 23 year old posers have a lot to learn about life. Your craving to be affilliated with black street culture so you can appear "different", is really not being different at all. When you're reduced to the point that you have to find a new angle to cock your baseball cap so you're different from all the other crooked hat wearing little wimps, you don't realize that you're truly not different at all.

Want to be different, new and exciting? Lose the baggy pants, that juvinile looking baseball cap, spend $30 on a Polo shirt and $20 on some Wranglers and be amazed at the respect you'll instantly receive, instead of the total lack of respect adult give you now. Oh, and sell that Honda Civic with all the bullshit added to it and buy a real car. The Folgers coffee can for a tailpipe doesn't do a damned thing and my 43 year old White ass in my 1/4 ton Toyota Tacoma leaves you little bastards at the red light every time, throwing your hands up and down and pointing fingers inside the car like a chimp with a coconut.

Grow up little boys.

Look at little Zachary from the Uptown Garden District. When he's around his friends he goes by "Little Z" and listens to Fifty Cents, had daddy spend $4000 on extras for the Honda Prelude he got for making the A Honor Roll at Tulane and cut holes in his $120 jeans so he can look all "ghetto". Classic example of a wannabe Wigger who's really just a poser.

Again, grow up you little idiots.

ghetto by Voice of Maturity February 20, 2006

ghetto 

1)Area in which the nazis contained the jews prior to being taken to concentration camps (this definition is rarely used in daily discussion)
2)Poor area of town with public housing, a high minority population, and even higher crime rates
3)Relating to black culture
4)ajective or adverb relating to cheapness

1) Hitler created ghettos in WWII Germany.
2)South Central LA is a classic ghetto.
3)Marcus's South Pole jeans that sag down past his knees are very ghetto when paired with a doorag.
4) noun: My friend's old car being held together by duct tape is deeply ghetto.
4) verb: My tendecny to eat every free sample in Sam's Club is really quite ghetto of me.

ghetto by lacoste_lover December 28, 2005

Ghetto 

What people call people who they feel are below them, things you don't have, or don't do. Or what white people, and some black people like to call anything that black people do.

"Oh, I don't have a raggedy house, Stacy, that's ghetto."
"I don't wear bonnets in public because that's ghetto."
"I won't have sex in public, that's ghetto."
"That black woman wearing pajamas is ghetto."
"That Successful black man is ghetto."
"I don't have a diploma, money, or a nice house. That's ghetto."

Ghetto by CHEY April 12, 2015