ghettify

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".

by Carl Willis February 12, 2005

Ghettify

Verb, To make ghetto.

Letting him in will ghettify the entire neighborhood

by Lashawndiqua May 16, 2014

Grettify

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

by Donworryinnit January 30, 2018

ghettofy

to make something look like its from the ghetto

I'm going to ghettofy my new car!

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.

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"

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

by Hottopic22 April 10, 2021