Ghetto Tendencies Edit Meaning

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noun: get-toe ten-dan-sees

The overwhelming compulsions that drive otherwise civilized people to do stupid things that they KNOW are just plain ghetto. Usually harbored by non-ghetto folks who have had early (perhaps childhood) exposure to the ghetto/hood/projects. Some believe that this phenomenon supports the theory that, “you can take people out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of people”.

Person 1: Did you see that congresswoman from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney? Dat chick punched the shit outta that cop at the capitol!

Person 2: Ghetto tendencies, dawg. Ghetto-ass tendencies!

See ghetto, hood, hoodish, rougish, trifling