Backslum
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backslum is a noun meaning A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
Meaning
A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
Example Sentences
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.
He was wrong there, for around the second next corner they ran into quite a different sort of landscape; a jumbled up place of city residences and back slums[.]
Word Forms
- backslums
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slum, slummer, slumdog, scumhole, slumlord, slumming.
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