slum

A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor.

To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

(slum it) To endure conditions or accommodations that are worse than what one is accustomed to.

In metallurgy, same as slime, 3: chiefly in the plural.

A dirty back street of a city, especially such a street inhabited by a squalid and criminal population; a low and dangerous neighborhood: chiefly in the plural: as, the slums of Whitechapel and Westminster in London.

To keep to back streets.

To visit the slums of a city, often from mere curiosity or as a diversion.

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; — usually in the plural.

Same as Slimes.

To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.