slurb
/slərb
/noun
An area of unplanned, poorly constructed suburban development: many visitors leave with the image of the region being a land of sprawling slurbs jammed with millions of people...
- It's one of those towns that has a slurb around it.
- Many parts of this city turned into a slurb.
- People have to go where the jobs are, and we all end up squashed into a slurb.
Origin
1960s: blend of sl- (from sloppy, sleazy, etc., or slum) and suburb.