noun
definition
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
definition
Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.
verb
definition
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
Examples of slum in a Sentence
I had lived in a tenement slum all my life.
It was barely evening but the darkening clouds and winter season begrimed the outside as black as a slum landlord's heart.
Most people of wooly good will lived outside the slum clearance areas.
Like many cities, slum housing close to the center had to be replaced.
The remarkable reforms he accomplished there may be ascertained from his Ten years in a Portsmouth slum (London 1896).
Here heaven on earth has become a sinister slum, an annex of history.
The sisters also established a Night Camp where slum children could wash and wear clean nightclothes.
There are already over a billion urban slum dwellers.
He also bought up various blocks of slum dwellings and converted them into model tenements, with the object of improving the conditions of the poorer classes of Dublin.
Slum dwellings were still a common sight in Scottish cities.
Just about to set off on a 2nd slum clearance campaign - anyone got a black bin liner?
His plays were intended to awaken people to the need for social reform; the first, Widowers ' Houses, attacked slum landlords.
How did poor slum dwellers become property developers in their own right?