slum

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1. slum - Noun

2. slum - Verb

Meaning

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

Same as Slimes.

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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family. Frank McCourt

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. H. G. Wells

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. John Kenneth Galbraith

The slum is the measure of civilization. Jacob August Riis

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from. Floyd Patterson

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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