Usually means: Densely populated, underdeveloped urban areas.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. slums: Merriam-Webster
  2. slums: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slums: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slums: Vocabulary.com
  5. Slums, slum's, slums: Wordnik
  6. slums: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slums: Wiktionary
  8. slums, the slums: Dictionary.com
  9. slums: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Slums: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Slums: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. slums: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slums: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slums: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SLUMS: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slums: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slum)

noun:  (countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.
verb:  (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, slang, dated) To saunter about in a disreputable manner.
noun:  (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.
noun:  (UK, obsolete, slang) Nonsense; humbug.
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