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• ghetto-fabulous
  ghetto-fabulous

  adjective

  pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto.
• ghetto fabulous
  ghetto fabulous

  adjective

  (of fashion) characterized by gaudy, extravagant, and often sexually alluring clothes

ghetto-fabulous

American  

[get-oh-fab-yuh-luhs] / ˈgɛt oʊˈfæb jə ləs /

adjective

Informal.

1. pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto.

   That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!

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ghetto fabulous British  

adjective

1. (of fashion) characterized by gaudy, extravagant, and often sexually alluring clothes

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Etymology

Origin of ghetto-fabulous

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

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ghetto-fabulous ghetto fabulous

Not unlike Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy with cinema’s Nouvelle Vague or Matisse and Derain with Fauvism, Diddy’s Bad Boy milieu of ghetto-fabulous grew into a global movement.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2017

It was ghetto fabulous in Technicolor, grown-up glamour seen through the eyes of the innocent.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2017