slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
slummer
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a word derived from
slum.
Example Sentences
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Manhattan watchers heard her motors, saw her slummer through the murk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their district was the great field of activity for the American University Settlement worker and fashionable slummer.
From The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
Its poverty and its tradition of lawlessness are sedulously fostered by itself for the benefit of the simple-minded slummer.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
Within, in the one dwelling-room of the cottage, were assembled as picturesque and as unsavory a group as the most enthusiastic modern "slummer" could desire to see.
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
