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Ghettoist 

person 1: Who is the ghettoist child alive?

person 2: Saad.

Ghettocure 

When your pedicure is chipped but you have no time or money to get it redone so you paint over it to get by

The act of fixing things in a cheap and aesthetically not pleasing way
Damn I have a date in half an hour and my toenail chipped. I'm just gonna ghettocure that sh$@)

My dresser drawer broke so I just ghettocured it with some duct tape.

My car window won't roll up, so I ghetto cured it with a garbage bag and tape

My fence broke and I can't afford a new one so I ghettocured it with rope.
Ghettocure by LL Housewife March 11, 2013

Ghettoing 

To lower the class of a situation, person or place. To make something more poor in taste or social status.
Shane keeps ghettoing the country club by bringing his boys on the golf course and smoking weed.
Ghettoing by dbmetter July 30, 2009

ghettocano 

The inexpensive home made version of the volcano- the volcano is the ultimate herbal vaporizer that all forced air vaporizers are compared against. The ghettocano is made with parts found in the hardware store, grocery store, and one piece thats specialty glassware.
Hey niiice, it's 4:20, time to fire up the ghettocano and have some chicken bags......
ghettocano by overmedium January 30, 2010

Ghettoticity

Ghettoticity (aka GhettoIQ) is a double value that ranges from 1 to 10 that represents how ghetto every individual is; 10 being the ghetto of the ghetto.

Everyone is born with a ghettoticity; usually around 5. Attributes such as race, religion, income, and education will create severe fluctuations to this number.
Current stats based off of US population below:

Mean: 6
Mode: 5
Median: 7
OMG you see that girl crotch catching, dang she ghetto as hell, I'll give her a ghettoticity of 9.68!

Man, that boy so white, he going to church every Sunday. He won't even eat fried chicken or drink grape soda...he got a ghettoticity of 3.32

Ghettofication 

The opposite of "gentrification." Disinvestment and the creation of deteriorated property caused by lower-income people slowly taking over and moving in to middle-class neighborhoods resulting in the flight of the former wealthier inhabitants.
In Detroit, a large proportion of ghettofied housing was originally built for middle and upper income occupants. As the process of ghettofication occurred this housing was increasingly occupied by lower income people. The ensuing disinvestment caused a spiral of decline in this former neighborhood of gentry as mansions were subdivided into several apartments with impoverished tenants. As ghettofication increased the houses were not maintained and blight engulfed the neighborhood.
Ghettofication by Dvorak April 17, 2006
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026

Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026

Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
Larpenomics by Rbois09 October 21, 2026
Word of the Day on October 21, 2026

Palmela Handerson 

Your hand that you masturbate with.
Girlfriend: What are you going to do for the next week while I'm on holiday?

Boyfriend: Have a visit from Palmela Handerson of course!
Word of the Day on October 20, 2026
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