ghetto vs jail

ghetto

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

noun
  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

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

jail

verb
  • To imprison. 

noun
  • In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined. 

  • Confinement in a jail. 

  • A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance. 

  • A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. 

  • The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days). 

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