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

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, Grant.  In the context Wilson provided, I had taken a sense
somewhat further down your gradient: knock-off, bootleg (in the older
sense of unauthorized).  Having been informed that improvised,
jury-rigged are current glosses, I now understand it as you did.

Joel

At 1/9/2006 09:28 PM, you wrote:
>They are all glosses on "ghetto" I've seen elsewhere. In the context
>Wilson provides, which I've seen frequently, I'd just gloss it as
>"jury/jerry-rigged, improvised," although there's a rough gradient in
>the possible glosses I gave:
>
>improvised
>jerry-rigged
>half-assed
>knock-off
>bootleg (which can also mean cheap/shoddy/worthless in recent slang
>usage)
>cheap (shoddy, poorly made)
>tacky (tasteless, unfashionable)
>
>Grant Barrett