Got lost going around the wrong part of town (6)
I believe the answer is:
ghetto
'town' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'got lost going around the wrong' is the wordplay.
'lost' is an anagram indicator.
'going around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wrong' indicates an anagram.
'got' with letters rearranged gives 'gto'.
'the' anagrammed gives 'het'.
'gto' enclosing 'het' is 'GHETTO'.
'part of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ghetto that I've seen before include "In the -- (Elvis Presley)" , "Historical Jewish quarter" , "Densely populated city slum" , "Needy part of city" , "City quarter to which Jewish people were confined" .)