Slum

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), n. [CF. {Slump}, n.]
     1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a
        poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any
        low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the
        plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
        --Dickens.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. pl. (Mining) Same as {Slimes}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), v. i.
     To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for
     purposes of study, etc. Also called {go slumming}. [Colloq.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slum
       n : a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living
           conditions [syn: {slum area}]
       v : visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity
       [also: {slumming}, {slummed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "slum":
     Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side,
     Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio,
     black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city,
     city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel,
     inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty,
     plague spot, red-light district, residential district, rookery,
     run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row,
     slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin,
     tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight,
     warren