ghetto fabulous

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Authentic, keeping it real."Ghetto fabulous" in Geneva Smitherman, Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner, Houghton Mifflin Books (2000), ISBN 0395969190, page 145: "Describes a person or thing that is authentic, the height of something, according to the authentic, natural, ‘keepin-it-real’ standards of Blackness that are believed to exist in ghetto communities. Also ghetto fab."
Wealthy, but of ghetto roots and ethic
Alternative form of ghetto fabulous
ghetto fabulous

    Hyphenation

    ghet·to fa·bu·lous

    Turkish pronunciation

    getō fäbyılıs

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgetō ˈfabyələs/ /ˈɡɛtoʊ ˈfæbjələs/

    Etymology

    () Ghetto + fabulous. In sense 2 perhaps influenced and popularized by rapper Mystikal's 1998 hip-hop song and album "Ghetto Fabulous".
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