Ghetto pour

Douglas Bigham TlhovwI at AOL.COM
Wed Nov 20 02:24:27 UTC 2002


Isn't this just the general "ghetto" adjective?

Meaning something like "silly, ridiculous, convoluted, rigged, etc."  As in
"Did you see that ghetto ride he was driving?" or "You should see my
ghetto-ass phonology homework."

This is common, no?

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
University of Texas - Austin

In a message dated 11/19/2002 5:28:56 PM Central Standard Time,
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM writes:

> I've heard this from two Seattle friends for the past year or two
> referring to beer poured to the top of a pint with no/nearly no foam.
> One of them also applied it to the practice of pouring sake so it
> overflows out of the masu onto the saucer.
>
> I don't find this meaning on the Web or any references in the online
> Oxford.
>


-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
University of Texas - Austin



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