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noun
1.
Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
2.
any squalid, run-down place to live.
verb (used without object)
3.
to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
4.
to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.
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Slum
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Origin:
1805–15; compare earlier argot slum room; origin obscure
1805–15; compare earlier argot slum room; origin obscure
Related forms
slum·mer, noun
de·slum, verb (used with object), de·slummed, de·slum·ming.
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Example Sentences
- Another was to lower the rents of some slum properties owned by the university.
- The incursion did little to disrupt life in the slum.
- So he issued an order that all cats were to be killed in his patch of the slum.
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Word Origin & History
slum
1845, from back slum "back alley, street of poor people" (1825), originally a slang word meaning "room," especially "back room" (1812), of unknown origin. Go slumming is from 1884, pastime popularized by East End novels. Slumlord first attested 1953, from slum landlord (1893).
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