Backslum
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
"It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally."
Example
More examples"It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally."
Etymology
From back + slum.
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