ghetto vs tight

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. 

tight

adj
  • Miserly or frugal. 

  • Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands. 

  • Fitting close, or too close, to the body. 

  • Under high tension; taut. 

  • Unyielding or firm. 

  • Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it. 

  • Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult. 

  • Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof. 

  • Extraordinarily great or special. 

  • Not conceding many goals. 

  • Intimate, close, close-knit. 

  • A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars. 

  • Of a player, who plays very few hands. 

  • Intimately friendly. 

  • Angry or irritated. 

  • Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open. 

  • Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution. 

  • Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk. 

  • Mean; unfair; unkind. 

  • Scarce, hard to come by. 

  • Limited or restricted. 

adv
  • Soundly. 

  • Firmly, so as not to come loose easily. 

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