Meaning

1 senses
  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

Origin

Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.

Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.

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Forms

plural: hyperghettos / hyperghettoes
Singularhyperghetto
Pluralhyperghettos / hyperghettoes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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