An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
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 (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.
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.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
A territory claimed by a person, gang, etc., as their own.
A racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.
A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
A block of peat used as fuel.
To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
To cancel a project or product.
To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.