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slum
noun- an apartment or house US
The Oxford English Dictionary offers several early C19 cites in this sense but deems the term obsolete. Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) wrote the language of the streets, not C19 England, suggesting a slang life for the word in the C20 US. - I forgot, some louse put the heist on your “slum”. — Pimp, p. 116, 1969
- inexpensive costume jewellery; any low value merchandise US, 1914
- The hijacker dumped that slum to the top of the dresser under a bright lamp. It was like the display at Tiffany’s. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 24, 1969
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 105, 1970
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 84, 1980
- The price of a Slum can vary from a little over a dollar a gross to almost ten a gross wholesale. — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 26, 1985
- Fluorescent tubing lit an interior “flashed” with plush stuffed ani-mals dangling on hooks and stacked boxes of “slum,” or cheap giveaways. — Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash, p. 101, 2005
- prison food US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 199, 1950
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