slum

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Word Origin & History

1845, from back slum "dirty back alley of a city, street of poor or low people" (1825), originally a slang or cant word meaning "room," especially "back room" (1812), of unknown origin, pastime popularized by East End novels. Related: slums. Slumscape is from 1947.

Example Sentences for slum

If they were poor, like the slum people, I could understand it better.

Slum slid from the bar to the ground, and his deep-set eyes were smiling again.

Slum lowered his cocktail and turned a disgusted look on him.

It was like a slum hidden away in the heart of a fashionable city.

The same procedure was followed at noon when slum was served.

It would have been amazing if I had stuck in the mire of the slum.

I got out of the brougham and ran through a slum, or I'd have lost my train.

She is one of the children in our slum neighborhood that we 48 have not been able to reach.

Hence, I say, in the battle with the slum we win or we perish.

And to the selfishness of the trader has been added the threat of the slum.

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