Another Word For GHETTO

slum

Noun : (countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

Noun : (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Noun : (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

favela

Noun : A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil.

Noun : A surname.

hood

Noun : A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

Noun : (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.

Noun : (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

pauper

Noun : One who is extremely poor.

Noun : One living on or eligible for public charity.

zone

Noun : (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).

Noun : Any given region or area of the world.

Noun : A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

gangsta

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English. [A member of a criminal or street gang.]

gangstas

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of gangster, representing African-American Vernacular English. [A member of a criminal or street gang.]

slums

Noun : (countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

Noun : (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Noun : (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

crackhouse

Noun : Alternative spelling of crack house [(informal) A residential building where crack cocaine is manufactured, sold, or consumed.]

ghettoization

Noun : The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.

Noun : The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.

wigger

Noun : A maker of wigs.

Noun : (derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.

Noun : (by extension, imprecise) A nonblack person of any race considered to be inauthentically appropriating black culture and behavior.

urban

Noun : (uncommon) A male given name from Latin.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic.

Noun : (biblical) An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible.

hellhole

Noun : (slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.

Noun : Alternative form of hellhole [(slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.]

wiggers

slummy

Adjective : Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.

gangbanger

Noun : (US, slang) A member of a violent gang; a violent person.

Noun : (vulgar, sex) Someone who takes part in a gangbang.

whiteboy

Noun : A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.

Noun : (literal, sometimes derogatory) A Caucasian male.

Noun : (uncountable, slang) Heroin.

suburban

Adjective : Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

crackhead

Noun : (slang, derogatory) A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.

Noun : (US, slang, derogatory) Someone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person.

thug

Noun : A person who is a member of a gang or criminal organization.

Noun : A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.

Noun : (historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.

innercity

Adjective : Alternative spelling of inner-city [Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.]

banlieue

Noun : The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing.

shantytown

Noun : An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

hoodlum

Noun : A gangster; a hired thug.

Noun : A rough or violent youth.

underclass

Noun : The poorest class of people in a given society.

barrio

Noun : A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.

Noun : A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.

Noun : (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.

grimy

Adjective : Stained or covered with grime.

Adjective : (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.

Adjective : (slang) Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.

pimp

Noun : Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

Noun : (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.

suburbs

Noun : (urban studies, plural only) The populated area surrounding a city.

shithole

Noun : (literally) The anus.

Noun : (synecdochically) A wretched or despicable person.

Noun : (literally) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.

gangster

Noun : A member of a criminal or street gang.

Noun : A member of a professional criminal organization (in organized crime): a racketeer.

crackerbox

Noun : (US, Canada, sometimes derogatory) An uncomfortably small and boxy house or car.

neighborhood

Noun : The residential area near one's home.

Noun : The inhabitants of a residential area.

Noun : A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

gangbanging

Noun : An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity.

Noun : (US, slang) An act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets.

honkie

Noun : Alternative spelling of honky [(US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.]

enclave

Noun : A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.

Noun : A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.

Noun : (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.

southside

Noun : The southern side of a building, street, area etc.

honky

Noun : (US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.

Noun : (US, obsolete) A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

gangbangers

Noun : (US, slang) A member of a violent gang; a violent person.

Noun : (vulgar, sex) Someone who takes part in a gangbang.

squalor

Noun : Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty

whitey

Noun : (especially African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.

Noun : (British, slang) A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.

crackheads

Noun : (slang, derogatory) A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.

Noun : (US, slang, derogatory) Someone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person.

westside

Noun : The western side of a building, street, area etc.

yuppie

Noun : (informal, sometimes derogatory) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

hellholes

Noun : (slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.

Noun : Alternative form of hellhole [(slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.]

shantytowns

Noun : An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

whiteboys

Noun : a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming.

Noun : (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) the soundtrack album to Marc Levin's 1999 comedy film Whiteboyz.

hillbilly

Noun : (often derogatory) Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.

Noun : (ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

hustler

Noun : One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.

Noun : Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.

Noun : A pimp.

burbs

Noun : (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A suburb.

wasteland

Noun : A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

Noun : Any barren or uninteresting place.

Noun : A devastated, uninhabitable area.

shtetl

Noun : A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.

redneck

Noun : (slang, US, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

Noun : (by extension, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin

Noun : (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

black

Noun : (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

Noun : (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.

Noun : (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.

goyish

Adjective : Of or relating to a goy, not Jewish.

bohemia

Noun : A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.

Noun : A place name elsewhere:

Noun : A place in England:

hipster

Noun : A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.

Noun : A member of Bohemian counterculture.

Noun : An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.

honkies

Noun : Alternative spelling of honky [(US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.]

hovel

Noun : An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

Noun : (derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

Noun : In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

squalid

Adjective : Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

Adjective : Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.

whitebread

Noun : Alternative spelling of white bread [Bread made from white flour.]

homeboys

Noun : (colloquial) Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.

Noun : (colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.

Noun : (colloquial) A person.

chav

Noun : (UK, MLE, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.

nigg

boondocks

Noun : The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain").

Noun : remote, usually brushy areas.

Noun : "Boondocks" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music group Little Big Town.

chickenhead

Noun : (slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A woman who readily performs fellatio.

Noun : (slang, by extension) An unintelligent and promiscuous woman.

Noun : (climbing) A bulbous protrusion on a rock face easily grabbed, stepped on, or tied off on when climbing.

racist

Noun : A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races.

suburbia

Noun : (originally British) The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.

hiphop

Noun : (uncommon) Alternative form of hip-hop. [An African-American urban youth culture based on rap music, breakdancing etc.]

jerkwater

Noun : (US, historical) A train on a branch line.

Noun : A jerkwater town.

trashy

Adjective : Like trash; having low quality, especially of books and films.

Adjective : Indecent or lacking class.

Adjective : Having or generating a lot of trash.

hoodlums

Noun : A gangster; a hired thug.

Noun : A rough or violent youth.

ghetto fence

Noun : A barrier intended to keep one group (usually against their will) separate from another.

student ghetto

Noun : (slang) A residential area, for instance in a college town, that predominantly consists of rental housing for postsecondary students.

shanty town

Noun : An area, such as a suburb, consisting of mean, roughly-constructed dwellings inhabited by poor people.

bad part of town

Noun : (informal) A dilapidated area of a city where many people live in a state of poverty and in which crime is more common than in other portions of the city.

slumland

Noun : A region of slums.

backslum

Noun : A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.

gayborhood

Noun : A part of a city that is largely populated by gay people.

concentration camp

Noun : A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.

Noun : A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.

Noun : (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.

ethnoburb

Noun : (US) A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.

death camp

Noun : A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die for various reasons, such as starvation, disease, brutality, and neglect.

Noun : A concentration camp built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill especially the Jewish people through gassing.

safe haven

Noun : A place of safety or refuge.

Noun : A protected zone in a country, especially one designated for members of an ethnic or religious minority.

Noun : An investment that would lose little of its value in the event of a stock market crash.

precinct

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) The general area surrounding a place, environs.

Noun : (UK) A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.

auschwitz

Noun : A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.

Noun : A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

gated community

Noun : A residential area with restricted access, such as by a locked gate or guard post.

Noun : (by extension) Anything exclusive having restricted access.

internment camp

Noun : (euphemistic) a concentration camp, especially a non-Nazi one from before or during WWII; a detention center; a relocation camp.

tenement

Noun : A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

Noun : (law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

Noun : (figurative) A dwelling; abode; habitation.

black jail

Noun : A facility in which individuals are detained by the state without access to legal process or representation.

township

Noun : The territory of a town.

Noun : (US, Canada) A subdivision of a county.

Noun : (South Africa, Pre 1994) An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.

thiefdom

Noun : (rare) The fact or practice of thieving; theft.

Noun : A place inhabited by thieves, or where thieves are in charge.

confined space

Noun : An enclosed area with limited space and accessibility.

other side of the tracks

Noun : Synonym of wrong side of the tracks

place

Noun : (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

Noun : An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

Noun : (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

negro-house

Noun : (US, dated, now offensive) A house where black slaves are kept.

region

Noun : Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

Noun : An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

Noun : (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.

enceinte

Noun : An enclosure.

Noun : The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress.

Noun : The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification.

jail

Noun : A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

Noun : (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.

Noun : (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

apartment

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

Noun : (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

Noun : (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.

gaoling

Noun : An instance of a person being gaoled.

Noun : A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

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