meaning of slum
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.
2. Same as Slimes.
3. a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
Related Words
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