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What's the meaning of hood in this comment? Is it neighbourhood, or it's a slang for something else?

Cutler Ridge (they renamed it to Cutler Bay now wtf) has been hood for a long time. We used to street race out at Black Point when I was a dumb ass teenager. But Saga Bay and the immediate coast areas were pretty nice back then.

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This poster made his comment in response to the following remark that's made from another poster:

My dad's SUV got jacked when I was living in Saga Bay. Don't live in FL anymore. Too much f-king crime and grime.

Best Answer

Here, hood is being used in contrast to nice. It is, indeed, short for "neighborhood," but specifically refers to a ghetto neighborhood. I've normally only heard it in nominal form, and urban dictionary seems to use it this way, too, but here it's an adjective referring to the impoverished/ghetto-like state of Cutler Ridge/Cutler Bay.

Urban dictionary shows the following definitions

  1. The ghetto.
  2. Someone who is from the ghetto.
  3. Someone who acts like they are from the ghetto. Other Slang: Hoodlum, Gangsta, Thug, Nigga, Pimp, Street-rat, Street Urchin, etc.
  4. The foreskin of a penis.
  5. Covering of the clitoris.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hood

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