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   Slum

   /sləm/

   

   noun

   • 1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people: "inner-city slums"
   • ▪ a house or building unfit for human habitation.

   verb

   • 1. spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes: informal "he bought some secondhand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged"
   • ▪ put up with conditions that are less comfortable or of a lower quality than one is used to: informal "businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats"

   Word Origin early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. slummer noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   • L

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   • U

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   • M

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