slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
were slumming
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past progressiveof slum.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For instance, when we were slumming, I was the Marchioness and Edwin was Dick Swiveller.
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed
