slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
slumming
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present participleof slum.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The formidable actress is slumming here, unable to connect with the thin character or material.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
“She might have considered herself slumming it with a TV guy, and TV guy was now breaking up with her. I can’t begin to describe the look of confusion on her face.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
On Tuesday there wasn’t that vaguely embarrassing feeling of an orchestra hall slumming it with pop.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
To Bull, it was as if Varney were an exiled prince slumming it among the foot soldiers of the world.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
