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Etymology 1

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Slum homes in Mumbai, India.

First attested in 1812. originallyslang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom", of unknown origin.

Noun

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slum (countable anduncountable,pluralslums)

  1. (countable, derogatory) Adilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state ofpoverty.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:slum
    • 1855,Charles Dickens, “Gambling”, inHousehold Words, volume31:
      Go to the half built-uponslums behind Battlebridge[…] you will find groups of boys[…] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber[…]
    • 1927-29,M.K. Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated1940 byMahadev Desai,Part I, Chapter xvi:
      I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in theslums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
    • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, inRailway Magazine, page703:
      Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowdedslums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page16:
      Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it wasslums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to apied à terre in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was aslum. Drury Lane? Aslum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury?Slums.
  2. (slang, uncountable)Inexpensivetrinkets awarded asprizes in acarnivalgame.
    • 1956, Theron Fox,How to Make Money with Carnival Games, page58:
      The lower the price ofslum the better it is for the operator who can either give more of it out or build up the size of his big prizes. It is the big prizes that bring the play, even though the winner has to be satisfied with a piece ofslum for his efforts.
    • 1976, Mary Carey, George Sherman,A compendium of bunk: or, How to spot a con artist:
      Another hanky pank is the darts and balloons. No gaffs, no grift, nothing phoney. Game for the kids and the family. Get a dozen gross ofslum and pass it out to the kids, and everybody'll love you.
    • 2009, Richard Margittay,Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes,→ISBN:
      Making twenty times his investment in only seconds, the concessionaire smiled as he awarded the nickelslum, often a stuffed worm, to each unwitting pigeon.
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Descendants
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Translations
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dilapidated neighborhood

Verb

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slum (third-person singular simple presentslums,present participleslumming,simple past and past participleslummed)

  1. (intransitive) To visit aneighborhood of astatus below one's own.
    • 1984,Jay McInerney,Bright Lights, Big City,→ISBN,page 4:
      When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that you areslumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head.
    • 2020, David Rosen,Prohibition New York City, Arcadia Publishing,→ISBN,page110:
      Whileslumming had long been an indulgence; if not liberty, of many well-to-do men (and some women), the intimate theaters created by Prohibition brought together elements of normally disparate social groups through a special form of bonding, breaking the law and enjoying it.
  2. (intransitive, UK, slang, dated) Tosaunter about in adisreputable manner.
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  • (saunter about):1873, John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

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Seeslumgullion.

Noun

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slum (uncountable)

  1. (slang)Slumgullion; ameat-basedstew.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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slum (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang)Nonsense;humbug.
    • 1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall,Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:
      And this, without moreslum began, / Over a flowing pot-house can, / To settle, without botheration, / The rigs of this here tip-top nation.

References

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  • 1873, John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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slum m inan

  1. slum(dilapidated neighborhood)

Declension

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Declension ofslum (hard masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativeslumslumy
genitiveslumuslumů
dativeslumuslumům
accusativeslumslumy
vocativeslumeslumy
locativeslumuslumech
instrumentalslumemslumy

Further reading

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  • “slum”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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slum m (definite singularslummen,indefinite pluralslummar,definite pluralslummane)

  1. aslum

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