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say it: sluhm
slum is a noun and verb meaning "a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
“attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.