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ghetto lotteries

ghetto lotteries is the plural of ghetto lottery.

Meaning of ghetto lottery

Noun

ghetto lottery (plural ghetto lotteries)

  1. (US, figuratively, idiomatic) A financial windfall obtainable by a socioeconomically disadvantaged person.
    • The experts all agree that sports betting and the numbers game—the ghetto lottery—are the biggest sources of income for the mob, and this money is used to finance other rackets like narcotics, loansharking, pornography, and the infiltration of legitimate businesses and unions.1977, Jack Newfield, Paul Du Brul, The Abuse of Power: the Permanent Government and the Fall of New York, Viking Press, page 258. (link)

Questions about ghetto lotteries

What is ghetto lotteries the plural of?
Ghetto lotteries is the plural of ghetto lottery.

Words near ghetto lotteries in the dictionary

  1. ghetto butts
  2. ghetto fabulous
  3. ghetto fence
  4. ghetto fences
  5. ghetto house
  6. ghetto lotteries
  7. ghetto lottery
  8. ghetto palm
  9. ghetto palms
  10. ghetto pass
  11. ghetto passes

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