Definitions
A poor, crowded urban area with substandard housing.
Used in a sentence
“Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]”
“Another hanky pank is the darts and balloons. No gaffs, no grift, nothing phoney. Game for the kids and the family. Get a dozen gross of slum and pass it out to the kids, and everybody'll love you.”
“Making twenty times his investment in only seconds, the concessionaire smiled as he awarded the nickel slum, often a stuffed worm, to each unwitting pigeon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Poor urban area”4 letters
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