Slumming

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own. countable, uncountable

    "Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of slum form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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class tourism

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"They're always going downtown and slumming it."

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