ghetto

1. (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.Examples: "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!"; "I had not used very many minutes on my phone. Here we pay for our minutes prior to using them, and it gets expensive. I did not want her using up all my minutes. That was very ghetto and disrespectful."informalslang

2. (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.Examples: "The music I liked was very ghetto and gritty. It was the stuff that didn't really cross over much, but spoke to a roots black experience. People don't understand this now, but the falsetto, crying singers were the most ghetto back then."; "You're the one that grew up in the suburbs and you act way more ghetto than I do.” “I am not ghetto.” Val said in an English accent and broke out laughing."; "I beat up my kid's principal. Can you get any more ghetto than that?"USderogatoryinformaloffensiveoften

1. (transitive) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.Examples: "This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population."; "All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights."transitive