Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of visiting slums, often for mere curiosity or as an amusement.
- noun The washing of earthy matter, pulverized rock, etc., to separate a desired element, as fossil remains or grains of ore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Visiting slums. Sometimes used humorously, in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low-class.
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- verb Present participle of
slum .
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Examples
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Whether or not it was "slumming" is irrelevant, because that has no bearing on the validity of his arguments.
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Portraying a radio interview as "slumming" is an example of a classic propaganda move.
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Portraying a radio interview as "slumming" is an example of a classic propaganda move.
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Whether or not it was "slumming" is irrelevant, because that has no bearing on the validity of his arguments.
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York it might be called slumming, but every old crawfish ditch and dirty alley was dear to me.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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"It's easy to just dismiss her - to say this was just some wealthy, sophisticated, privileged person doing what they used to call 'slumming,' " Amram says.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Better yet, it echoes a distant Bowery practice known as slumming, in which gaggles of Gilded Age gentry would tour its saloons, opium dens and slums, all for that fluttering thrill of There but for the Grace of God - and the Breaks of Privilege and Birthright - Go I.
NYT > Home Page By DAN BARRY 2011
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Better yet, it echoes a distant Bowery practice known as slumming, in which gaggles of Gilded Age gentry would tour its saloons, opium dens and slums, all for that fluttering thrill of There but for the Grace of God - and the Breaks of Privilege and Birthright - Go I.
NYT > Home Page By DAN BARRY 2011
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West End to return the "slumming" the West End has done in the East.
THE GHETTO 2010
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The designers have realized that they can make tons of money by "slumming" it in discount stores.
Thoughts: Individuality in a Consumerism Age Code Monkey 2008
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