When perception of preferential treatment of the affluent classes results in an inflammation of social tension sufficient to bring about an upheaval or backlash of the unspoken status quo between the classes from below. When the preferential treatment is based on race and not capitalism, such an uprising is a matter of humanity and social justice. When it is not racial, it is usually rooted in socialism.
ConEd employee #1: If we don't restore power to New Rochelle and Mount Vernon before Pelham, we'll have a ghetto uprising. Everyone knows that Pelham is white.
ConEd employee #2: That'll just be a race war. A ghetto uprising is class warfare. You're thinking of what would happen if we restored power to the Village before the Upper East Side.
ConEd employee #2: That'll just be a race war. A ghetto uprising is class warfare. You're thinking of what would happen if we restored power to the Village before the Upper East Side.
by Casey Poivre March 6, 2011
Get the Ghetto Uprisingmug. 1) a word derived from dark skinned people who enjoy rap and enjoy skateboarding but do not want to be called skateboarders because of so many punk gay skaters that give them a bad name. they are therefore called ghetto boarders.
1)gay punk: "dude are u a skater" ghetto boarder: "nah man im not gay, but i do ghetto board." *punches punk in the head*
by Kurt O'Brien May 13, 2005
Get the ghetto boardermug. A 2 part definition word. Bougie(n):An upper middle-class black person that possess snobby, rich-folk traits and mannerisms. Ghetto(n): Any black person or community fixated in severe urban areas, whether it be in the city or the country. One of the many epitomes of black cultures.
Combinate the 2 words: A well-to-do black person with underlying ghetto intetions. Usually their in denial of their up-bringing or family true background. When it sneaks out from them then their "bou-ghetto".
It can also be an adjective. It can describe a certain flare in fashion or it can be descriptive as in someone's behavior or actions.
Combinate the 2 words: A well-to-do black person with underlying ghetto intetions. Usually their in denial of their up-bringing or family true background. When it sneaks out from them then their "bou-ghetto".
It can also be an adjective. It can describe a certain flare in fashion or it can be descriptive as in someone's behavior or actions.
Female 1: "Look at Tanisha with that short denim skirt on and those Prada boots...that looks totally wrong!"
Female 2: "Wrong?! That looks very bou-ghetto, you can't wear that in Baltimore, she needs to take that back to the ghetto!"
Female 2: "Wrong?! That looks very bou-ghetto, you can't wear that in Baltimore, she needs to take that back to the ghetto!"
by Harold Wright, Jr. a.k.a. Jey Wright (Poet) October 15, 2005
Get the bou-ghettomug. a ghetto blaster is a rocket disguised as a boom box which is used to blow up seven elevens in compton
by ching changidy chong February 25, 2005
Get the ghetto blastermug. 
by pseudo nymmm April 16, 2009
Get the ghetto upgrademug. A mall with at least 2 of the following. Target, BestBuy, WalMart, Depeartment Store, MegaPlex Movie Theaters, teens hanging out ala MallRats.
by Greg February 24, 2004
Get the Ghetto Mallmug.