to save someone from something

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.

A little hick town near shingle springs where no one has teeth. Almost everyone is insest, and thats the way they like it.

Inferior, of cheap quality, "ghetto". Derived from the likes or attributes of a rescue animal (rather than pure bred, i.e. Shiba)