ghetto vs jungle

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. 

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

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. 

jungle

noun
  • A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. 

  • A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. 

  • Dense rough. 

  • A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass. 

  • A hairy vulva. 

  • Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. 

  • An area where hobos camp together. 

  • A desert region. 

  • A migrant camp. 

  • A tangled mess. 

adj
  • resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle. 

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