ghetto vs slim

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. 

slim

adj
  • Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy. 

  • Designed to make the wearer appear slim. 

  • Slender in an attractive way. 

  • Long and narrow. 

  • Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient. 

  • Very small, tiny. 

noun
  • A potato farl. 

  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. 

  • AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. 

  • Cocaine. 

verb
  • To make slimmer; to reduce in size. 

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness. 

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