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v. (from ghetto)

1. To allow or promote degeneration of a community, through the efflux of the middle class and legitimate business and the influx of a culture of poverty, crime, low ambition, shiftlessness, and bling. Opposite of "gentrify."

2. To modify a possession such as a car or sound system to reflect the styles of the aforementioned "ghetto culture."
1. "By 1972, the Crips had thoroughly ghettified Compton and all vestiges of the working population had fled west."

2. Shameel proceeded to ghettify his Honda Civic, adding platinum rims, a spoiler, a 500-watt subwoofer, and a custom paint job done by his dawg Kumar in exchange for "summa dat white stuff".
ghettify by Carl Willis February 12, 2005
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Letting him in will ghettify the entire neighborhood
Ghettify by Lashawndiqua May 16, 2014
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When you turn someone into a smoker and a nitty.
J golding was the best serial grettifyer of the 21st century

I can't wait to grettify my mate
Grettify by Donworryinnit January 30, 2018

ghettofy 

to make something look like its from the ghetto
I'm going to ghettofy my new car!
ghettofy by Anonymous September 13, 2003

de-ghettofy 

Getting rid of the people in your social network who have the values or behavior of ghetto peeps. They got in by accident but they clearly don't belong in your social circle.
Aminata, thank you for helping me de-ghettofy my Facebook, easy way, by de-friending me.
de-ghettofy by Wrong Name July 31, 2011

ghettification

The process of making a non ghetto person into a ghetto person or a gangster
"Today is the day that Tommy will go through the process of ghettification"
ghettification by M.J. Weber February 28, 2008

Ghettofying 

The act of taking something normal and making it a ghetto as possible
He was ghettofying the fuck out of his room
Ghettofying by Hottopic22 April 10, 2021
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