"Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?

[Benjamin Barrett]

I've heard this with a resulting postive connotation in the expression
"ghetto pour", meaning a beer pour filling the glass to the rim without
foam.

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Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Barrett
>
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 16:21, Alice Faber wrote:
> > Wow...I *never* understood *any* implication of illegality
> in "ghetto"
> > (as in "ghetto-blaster"), *never*.
>
> The "stolen" implication is completely absent from my
> experience, too. Wilson and Alice's glosses are similar to
> mine: jerry-rigged, improvised, half-assed, knock-off,
> bootleg, cheap, tacky.