hyperghetto
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.
Noun[edit]
hyperghetto (plural hyperghettos or hyperghettoes)
- (sociology) 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