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Definitions of ghetto
  1. noun
    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"
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  2. noun
    a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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  3. noun
    formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
    "the Warsaw ghetto"
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  • harlem a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto
  • rastafari (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
  • rastas (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
  • ghettoise put in a ghetto
  • ghettoize put in a ghetto
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