The Brief: Ghetto can refer to a slum or inner city area. It can also be used to describe something unrefined or low-class.

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The noun ghetto means a part of a city where a usually poor minority are marginalized to. Ghetto as an adjective usually means ratchet,ย poor, cheap, or of the ghetto.

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