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noun | verb slumslum1 /slʌm/ noun ► in the slums She grew up in the slums. [countable] an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live: slum of the slums of Rio She grew up in the slums. noun | verb slumslum2 ●○○ verb (slummed, slumming) [intransitive] VERB TABLEslum |
| Present | I, you, we, they | slum | | he, she, it | slums | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slummed | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slummed | | he, she, it | has slummed | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slummed | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slum | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slummed |
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| Present | I | am slumming | | he, she, it | is slumming | | you, we, they | are slumming | | Past | I, he, she, it | was slumming | | you, we, they | were slumming | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slumming | | he, she, it | has been slumming | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slumming | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slumming | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slumming |
(also slum it) often humorous to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to: I don’t want to spend a lot, but I don’t want to slum it either. |