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ghetto text 

also known as l33t is a language used among cholos gangsters or ghetto people. usually never understandable
it consists of replacing:
As with 4s
Es with 3s
Ss with 5s or $s
Os with 0s
Bs with 8s

Ls with 1s
Is with !s
Hs with #s
Gs with Qs
YOUs with JEWs
THISs with DIS
and sometimes adding additional letters to a word, and capitalizing some letters and some not.
ghetto text (regular text)
#3yy w4ttz$UP (hey what's up)

Dd!iZ H03 4ttt W411-M4rTT 8uMmP3dD !Nt0 M3 50 1 Zt4883d #3r (this hoe at wal-mart bumped into me so i stabbed her)

ke$ha
ghetto text by heyy82 June 17, 2010
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ghetto text 

(n) an incoherent series of letter, number or symbol combinations used to send text or email messages that are impossible to comprehend.
Yo, I just got a ghetto text from Tyrese and it looks like his mom's broom just got stolen by alien zombies....wus up wit dat?
ghetto text by Johnny B Ghetto December 17, 2006

Ghetto Text 

Someone from jail calls you and knows there is no money on the phone and leaves a ghetto text instead of their name so you receive a short message.
How to get a Ghetto Text when inmate calls,
Answer phone: You have a call from "I love you" an inmate in the (fill in the blank) facility.
Ghetto Text by smokinbudha December 12, 2013

Ghetto Texting 

The act of purposely misspelling words even though your phone auto corrects it for you just for the sake of showing how uneducated you can be
Why does this bitch keep ghetto texting me. I don't even know what this mean, I'm white. "I wuz hoping u wuld pik meh up lata kk bi :)"
Ghetto Texting by PooPooFaceMcgee August 28, 2011

ghetto texting 

The act of having a conversation with someone by typing on your phone, but not actually sending the text. Rather, you just pass the phone back and forth to type on, or you just show the person what you wrote to them.
We were ghetto texting so that our friends wouldn't know what we were saying.

We didn't feel like talking, so we just ghetto texted.

We were sitting together, and he just ghetto texted me that he liked me!
ghetto texting by lunascope March 2, 2009

ghetto texting 

texting someone when you are able to talk to them, otherwise;
talking to someone via text on the same phone (passing phone back and forth);
texting while purposefully using slang
John: They were texting each other in class when they could have just talked...
Joe: Dey been ghetto texting again, foo.
ghetto texting by fooooooooooooo October 14, 2012

textbook ghetto 

A person that acts EXACTLY as how the media depicts people living in the inner city community. Unlike "a textbook case of ghettoism," textbook ghetto is usually seen in teens that are living in suburbs or upper high class neighborhoods who have never stepped foot in a ghetto; and is mostly the exaggerated version of the actual, since the media distorts reallity.
Chris: Hey! Why is John wearing extra baggy pants below his wang, Air Jordans, long plain white t-shirt, and a big cap?
Neal: Damn it! He must've caught that bug that's going around: textbook ghetto.
textbook ghetto by Neal A. Williams November 8, 2007
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