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Ghetto

🇨🇲 Cameroon Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 2 definitions
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Ghetto definition 1

Ghetto (Ghetto/poor area)

"I grow for ghetto (I grew up in the ghetto)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Ghetto definition 2

Ghetto (Poor area)

"From the ghetto (From poor area)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

Word Details

Country
🇨🇲 Cameroon
Definitions
2 community definitions
Added
August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Ghetto 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Ghetto (Poor neighborhood)

"Je viens du ghetto! (I come from the ghetto!)"
Ghetto 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Poor area (Ghetto)

"We from di ghetto. (We're from the ghetto.)"

🇨🇲 About Cameroon Slang

Cameroonian slang bridges French and English with Camfranglais, a unique urban fusion language born in Yaoundé and Douala that mixes both official languages with local vernacular.

KASINARY has 1846 Cameroon slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Ghetto" Across Africa

This word is also used in 8 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Ghetto 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Ghetto (Poor neighborhood)
Ghetto 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Poor area (Ghetto)
Ghetto 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Seterekeng se sebe / Bad area
Ghetto 🇱🇷 Liberia

Poor area/Slum (Ghetto)
Ghetto 🇬🇲 Gambia

Ghetto bi am na xew (There's drama in the ghetto)
Ghetto 🇳🇪 Niger

Unguwa ta talakawa (Poor neighborhood)
Ghetto 🇺🇬 Uganda

Ghetto (Poor area)
Ghetto 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Hood or slum (Poor area)

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