stiletto in the ghetto

Popular expression in Dublin, Ireland for the piece of commemorative art set up to mark the passing of the second millennium CE: a steel spike approximately 400 feet high, rising out of a traffic island in the centre of the dual thoroughfare of O'Connell Street on the north bank of the Liffey. It is circular in cross section, ten feet across at the base and decorated near street level with wavy frosted/reflective shapes, tapering to about ten inches at the tip, lit with a ring of red lights halfway up and a stream of white ones at the top. It takes the place of a removed statue of the figure of Anna Livia (female symbol of the River Liffey) in a fountain, previously known as the "floozie in the jacuzzi." The Spike is also known as the Spike on the Dike and/or the Stiffey on the Liffey. It is popularly supposed to be a monument to the street's night-time heroin addicts, although an alternative explanation would be that it is a symbolic memo spike for Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Aherne's hotel bills. In case anyone tries flying a jetliner into it a la 9/11, it is purely a metal spike, not an inhabited building; there isn't even a public elevator and observation deck like there is on the Eiffel Tower, or anything. Still, in a certain summer evening light it can have a certain surreal charm.

The stiletto in the ghetto isn't bad, but I think the crane they used to haul it up looked waaay better.

by Fearman December 10, 2007

I’m in the ghetto ratatata

A thing from Tik tok

I’m in the ghetto ratatata ratatata

Ahhhhhhh

by Abi F January 5, 2020

Hes in the ghetto

The deffinition of the guy that made a tik tok about him being in the ghetto (r a t a t a t a a a a)

look at him,hes in the ghetto just ratatataing

by Joaquinkiller1111 January 17, 2020

Woke up in the ghetto

Meaning 1: Waking up with your head at the foot of the bed. The upper part of the bed is generally where you lay. It is considered more luxurious because of pillows, stuffed animals, etc, therefore being "wealthy". The foot of the bed typically doesn't have anything adorning it, so therefore it is "poor", thus being the ghetto. Can also be referred to as "Christopher Columbusing", as you are in a place you haven't been in before.

Meaning 2: You woke up in the actual ghetto of a city.

Guy 1: "Dude I was so wasted last night. I woke up in the ghetto this morning.

Guy 2: At least you didn't actually wake up in the ghetto.

Guy 3: I'm always Christopher Columbusing. I party every night.

by 1364gds February 12, 2014

i'm in the ghetto

ra ta ta ta

"i'm in the ghetto, ra ta ta ta"

by imfromtheghettoratatata February 12, 2020

I'm in the ghetto

Ra ta ta ta Ra ta ta ta

Hey Emily, I'm in the ghetto Ra ta ta ta

by JESUS_motherfrickn_CHRIST January 11, 2020

Im in a ghetto ratatata tata

It's a legendary word.

nobody:
you:IM IN A GHETTO RATATATA TATA

by anonymous October 13, 2020