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slum

[sluhm] noun, verb, slummed, slum⋅ming.
–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, esp. from curiosity.
4. to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

Origin:
1805–15; cf. earlier argot slum room; orig. obscure


slummer, noun
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slum   (slŭm)   
n.  A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor. Often used in the plural.
intr.v.   slummed, slum·ming, slums
To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

[Origin unknown.]
slum'mer n., slum'my adj.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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