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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024slum /slʌm/USA pronunciation n., v., slummed, slum•ming. n. [countable] - a run-down or dirty part of a city:The mayor promised to clean up the slums.
v. [no object] - Idiomsto visit or spend time in a place, esp. an amusement spot, considered low in social status:to go slumming.
slum•mer, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024slum (slum),USA pronunciation n., v., slummed, slum•ming. n. - Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- any squalid, run-down place to live.
v.i. - to visit slums, esp. from curiosity.
- to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.
- 1805–15; compare earlier argot slum room; origin, originally obscure
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