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Someone who comes from the "ghetto", or acts as if they come from the ghetto, by for example wearing baggy pants.
Can be of any race.
Example:

Matt: "WHOA! Look at this guy, he's a total Ghettan."
Billy: "Holy crap, yeah, look at that.. Total East Side status. Hot cheetoes and everything."
Ghettan by Batman oCourse March 22, 2010
Words you can keep

ghettabilly 

When someone/something/some action is both ghetto and hillbilly at the same time.
When he threw the iron out of the window, he didn't give a shit that it hit a passer by. And then he left it on the lawn for everyone to see. That's straight ghettabilly!
ghettabilly by Tan and Tasty May 31, 2012

ghettass 

Combination of ghetto and ass. Use it when ghetto or ass alone are insufficient to describe how bad something is.
Guy 1: *some bullshit*
Guy 2: wuz you talmbout ghettass nigga.
ghettass by ruffysummers September 16, 2017

ghettaway 

Used to describe a poor vacation, or the hotel itself. Derived from the "getaway." Also spelled "ghettoway."
Mark thought he was getting a good deal on his hotel, but when he arrived he realized it was really just a ghettaway.
ghettaway by :Ohmy August 14, 2008

ghettonomics 

The doctrine of questionable practices such as income tax & welfare fraud, cable television theft, offspring identity theft, narcotics and weapon trafficking, and the display of counterfeit mecrchandise apprarel and accessories, to name some examples.
'Shequa is a victim of ghettonomics, in which she's forced to use her 3 year old daughter's social security number to get utlities, claim additional kids to increase her state benefits, in order to sell the food benefits for .50 on the dollar for cash to cop a elbow of chronic to sell, since she's got piyli and can't get a regular job. Chances are, she'll end up at the swap meet trying to buy a knock off Doonie & Burke or Coach purse.
ghettonomics by TechieThugg July 25, 2008

ghettaux 

Anything or anyone that tries (and ultimately fails) to become "ghetto," or street-hardened and lower class.
Person 1: Look at that guy with his saggy pants, he's so ghetto.

Person 2: No, he's ghettaux. His parents make upwards of $100,000 a year and he just wants to pretend he comes from a poor neighborhood.
ghettaux by AP in the BG January 3, 2010

Ghettonese 

A dialect of English spoken in the rougher neighborhoods of the US. It forgoes tenses, and adds the word "be" where it doesn't belong.

Not to be confused with hoodrat.
"Sometimes it be the ones who doesn't go to school who struggle as a kid in English class and have to learn to speak ghettonese"
Ghettonese by Theris March 21, 2020
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green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

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Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
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"Salad days, 'nuf said."
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A)
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B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people
A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*
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Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!
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