slum

noun

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

intransitive verb

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

idiom

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

noun

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.