THE HOOD: IS IT AN ABBREVIATION WORD NEIGHBORHOOD OR THE BLACK GHETTO?
The definition of the hood varies from person to person or place to place. I believe that the hood is a negative term used to describe low-income communities that are populated densely by African-Americans and Hispanics. It is a place where you see a lot of violence and drugs and whose inhabitants esp. males are constantly running into trouble with the law and facing police brutality.
-Nzinga Hyacinthe
DEFINITIONS OF THE HOOD
Positive:
- The Hood is the part of the city where you grew up.
- Derived from "neighborhood". An area which one lives/lived/ or is in
Negative
- Usually refers to an undesirable area: gangsters are from the “hood”
- A gangster slang word derived from neighborhood, usually talking about the ghetto or where all the gangsters and thugs live.
- The hood is a lower income crime riddled area. An unsafe place to live. Residents usually live in fear of life from day to day. Not a 'nice' place to live.
- slang for a neighborhood,
usually refers to a depressed community,
most often used in reference to the neighborhood that the speaker is from. - ghetto place usually rough where people sell drugs or get shot
- The "Hood" means a place that is very crappy or ghetto. The ghetto is in Detroit, Brooklyn, Compton, Etc. The "Hood" is usually filled with blacks and some whites. It is sometimes a good place to live because it is cheaper. The "Hood" can also be in a trailer park or bad public housing apartment complex.
Definitions from urban dictionary.com
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SONG ABOUT LIFE IN THE HOOD(HIP HOP STEREOTYPE)
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