slum Definition

slum
noun

1. A run-down, dirty and usually overcrowded house.
2. An area or neighbourhood containing such housing.

Form: slums (often)

verb

intr
slummed, slumming
1. To visit an area of slums, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

Derivative: slumming
noun

Derivative: slummy
adj

Like a slum; run-down or squalid.

Idiom: slum it

colloq, often facetious
To experience circumstances that are less affluent or more squalid than one is used to.

Etymology: Early 19c.