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was slumming

  • past progressive
    of slum.
    slum
    noun
    Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.

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Booted out of his royal Windsor lodgings, was slumming it on the king’s private estate in Norfolk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

It's a great place and I don't know if I was slumming.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2018

I never met him again for thirteen years, and I was slumming when I ran against him.

From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray