Slum
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English
Noun
Slum (plural Slums)- A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
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Verb
Slum (third-person singular simple present Slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)
- To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
- To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
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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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