often mistook for literally meaning the ghetto; the term 'hood' is slang for neighborhood. what makes the term ghetto is that its mainly used in the ghetto.
meaning from the "hood" a slang term derived from the word neighborhood, which is commonly used in lower class urban aread among thug types and gangsters. example: boyz in da hood. a common phrase used is "I'm so hood" the website hood1.com centers around this definition of the word hood making light and fun of ghettoness and such
"I'm so hood" "we hood rich" " that foo a wannabee he aint hood, just a square"
Not to be mistaken with the ghetto. The area(s) in a city where not only poor, usually black people, live, where much violence takes place. The hood is where you get shot, stabbed, mugged, etc., the ghetto is just a poor area.
Poor Black Guy 1 "Yo man I live in the hood!"
Poor Black Guy 2 "No you don't, you live in the ghetto, I live in the hood! Hell, I just got my rims stolen AND my ass shanked just yesterday!"