slumming

Variant of slum

noun

  1. a usually heavily populated area of a city, characterized by poverty, poor housing, etc.
  2. something considered to be like a slum, as in being dilapidated or dirty

Origin: c. 1800 < cant: orig. sense, a room < ?

intransitive verb slummed, slumming

to visit or tour slums, esp. for reasons held to be condescending

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