English Explanatory Dictionary

hyperghetto

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata

Word forms

hyperghetto hyperghettos hyperghettoes

Etymology

Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.

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