Slum

Definition of Slum

Pronunciation: slŭm
n.1.A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; - usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
2.(Mining) Same as Slimes.
v. i.1.To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.

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Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel, inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, red-light district, residential district, rookery, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row, slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight, warren
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