1. overcrowded urban areas characterized by substandard housing and squalid living conditions
Usage: plural of slum

1. to visit or spend time in places considered beneath one’s social status
Usage: informal; third person singular present of slum

Examples

• Many families were forced to live in the city’s slums due to poverty.
• The government announced plans to improve conditions in the slums.
• She grew up in the slums but worked hard to escape that life.
• Urban slums often lack basic services like clean water and electricity.
• The wealthy businessman sometimes slums it at dive bars downtown.
• He slums with his old college friends when he visits the city.