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ALL meanings of slum

slum
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  • noun slum deprived urban neighbourhood 1
  • noun slum squalid home 1
  • noun slum relating to a slum 1
  • noun slum Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people. 1
  • noun slum any squalid, run-down place to live. 1
  • verb without object slum to visit slums, especially from curiosity. 1
  • verb without object slum to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status. 1
  • countable noun slum A slum is an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and where the houses are in bad condition. 0
  • verb slum If someone is slumming it or is slumming, they are spending time in a place or in conditions that are at a much lower social level than they are used to. 0
  • noun slum a squalid overcrowded house, etc 0
  • noun slum a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding 0
  • noun slum of, relating to, or characteristic of slums 0
  • verb slum to visit slums, esp for curiosity 0
  • verb slum to suffer conditions below those to which one is accustomed 0
  • noun slum a usually heavily populated area of a city, characterized by poverty, poor housing, etc. 0
  • noun slum something considered to be like a slum, as in being dilapidated or dirty 0
  • intransitive verb slum to visit or tour slums, esp. for reasons held to be condescending 0
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