I. noun
a densely populated usually urban area marked by run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization
a slum full of vagrants, junkies, pimps, and pushers
Synonyms: stew
Related Word: slumdom, slumland; tobacco road; tenderloin; skid row; ghetto; hive, kennel, rookery, warren
Idioms: desolation row, the wrong side of the tracks
II. noun
Synonyms: slime , muck, ||slab