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

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:21 PM -0500 1/9/06, Alice Faber wrote:
>Wow...I *never* understood *any* implication of illegality in "ghetto"
>(as in "ghetto-blaster"), *never*. The back story I've assumed for it
>(going back to the mid-80s) was associated with street life. If music is
>important to you, and you're hanging around outside, and you have the
>wherewithal to bring your music with you...
>
>More recently, I've seen "ghetto" as a more generic put-down, meaning
>something like "tacky".
>
This last (or a synonym of it) is the gloss that I get from Yale
students who include "ghetto (adj.)" in their New Words lists.

Larry