ghetto

adjective

1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

2. (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!

- I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!

3. (US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

noun

1. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live

- the Warsaw ghetto

Definition categories: location, quarter

2. any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping

- the relative security of the gay ghetto

- no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool

Definition categories: state, life

3. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Definition categories: location

verb

1. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.