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slummed Definition


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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.



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