Before joining the discussion, I'm curious...can "ghetto" still be used as a synonym for dilapidated (fucked up) and/or a loosely created makeshift contraption?

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Yes.
it's considered slang.

"damn, yo car is ghetto"
that means
"your car is fucked up"

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Fucks so ghetto about that?

Thanks. Well, the specific area of my neighborhood I live in isn't really ghetto, but my town can be that way sometimes. Like last year, this kid Nathan I knew got his station wagon broken into. It was just a simple smash n' grab, but they took out one of his back windows, and stole his $700+ system, somehow pulling it off right in front of school. The window, however, was easily replaced by a garbage bag. So when we'd go to lunch and someone already called "shotgun", 2 of the other 3 passangers would have to call either "window" or "plastic" if they wanted to avoid sitting in the middle.

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^lmfao, who knows.
I guess thats considered the "slums" in the UK.

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was this thread titled "show that your area is ghetto" ???? no it was titled "how ghetto is your neighbourhood?" learn to read moron, and ghetto meaning fucked, old buildings, fucked up roads and paths old street lamps most of which dont work, half the lights in the blocks of flats(apartment blocks for you americans) dont work, the block i live in had a huge hole in the roof for atleast 18 months before the council came out to fix it... and your only seeing the ouskirts of the are i live in, the blocks u see, thats where its worse, or behind the one i live in, out of the way, dark and dirty, mainly cos thats where the junkies go to shoot up... but well done on judging an area you only seen one picture of, moron

Oh, and in addition to this car being a green station wagon, there was also spray paint across the side that read "Pimp Mobile", and the box to "Girls Gone Wild: Doggystyle" serving as a decoration for the front dashboard.

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and i never once claimed this area was one of the worse areas in the country, if you want the real slums, check up places like croydon, hackney, nottingham, chapletown, west bowling(or just the city "bradford" in general), liverpool, or then u got places like glasgow, fuck an american, u want to see deep shit, go to glasgow, my family would happily show you how it goes down there(yes my dads side of the family come from glasgow), i could keep listing places but yeah

how the hell was he supposed to know if thats all he seen?

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EXACTLY!!!!!

he has seen one picture, and he makes out like that is how the entire area looks... anybody from any kind of "slum" will tell you, the further into it you go, the worse it gets

My hood is clean and safe with friendly ppl everywhere.

...its way more fun than getting shanked in a dirty unsafe alley with mean ppl everywhere.

detriot is pretty fucked up lol...

chicago is same i seen the same shit in both.....

cept i live in chicago so i seen more...i use to live in the ghetto but i moved out aint as bad more rich ppl then poor,....

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now....... are we talkin like jewish holocaust ghettos? or wat?

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chicago is really cleanin up....... u seen wat happened to cabrini, tearin down all the projects...... it might work

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