ghetto vs lame

ghetto

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

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

  • 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. 

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. 

lame

adj
  • Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant. 

  • Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function. 

  • Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. 

  • Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. 

  • Unconvincing or unbelievable. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. 

noun
  • A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor. 

  • A stupid or undesirable person. 

  • A set of joined overlapping metal plates. 

  • Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking. 

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