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Webster 1913 Edition

Slum

Slum

(slŭm)
,
Noun.
[CF.
Slump
,
Noun.
]
1.
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
.
Dickens.
2.
pl.
(Mining)
Same as
Slimes
.

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