Definition of ghetto:
(n) :
the district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves; an economically depressed urban district predominantly inhabited by members of one ethnic or religious group
"bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville are often cited as African-American ghettos."
(adj) :
of or related to a
ghetto or to
ghettos in general; of low quality; cheap; shabby
"my apartment's so
ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!"