noun, verb
noun an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition:
a slum area / district * city / urban slums * She was brought up in the slums of London. * slum clearance schemes * a plan to rehouse slum dwellers
verb (-mm-) [V] (usually be slumming) (informal) to spend time in places or conditions that are much worse than those you are used to:
There are plenty of ways you can cut costs on your trip without slumming.
IDIOMS
slum it to accept conditions that are worse than those you are used to:
Several businessmen had to slum it in economy class.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slum is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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