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slum
verb- to visit a poor neighbourhood out of curiosity; to live beneath your station UK, 1884
- I want to go slumming down on Central Avenue. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 54, 1945
- On one of my nights off, some of us went slumming. — Helen P. Branson, Gay Bar, p. 69, 1957
- “Slumming?” Juan asked in routine. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 98, 1958
- Why, I said, they must be out slummin’, or maybe just pickin’ brains. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 216, 1961
- [E]ven a few well-dressed women, slumming with their well-dressed husbands or escorts–but, usually knowingly slumming. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 247, 1963
- Through “Moms”, he got the Negro businessmen and politicians to come when slumming and through his own efforts he got the hustlers and night people. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 82, 1967
- Eating chitterlings is like going slumming to them. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 29, 1968
- A guy and his wife, slumming. Radical chic, vintage 1976. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 143, 1978
- You must like slumming, Kareem. What would make a high-class guy like you leave a good computer programming job at Citibank, come uptown and work among a den of thieves? — New Jack City, 1990
- These boys do “Bluntman and Chronic,” which outsells both of our books put together, hence they’re never on a panel with the likes of us. They slumming right now. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- to voluntarily mix with social inferiors UK, 1928
- I accuse her of slumming with me [...] like she think she better than me. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 11, 1997
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