n. Function: noun
a densely populated usually urban area marked by run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization FF1C; a slum full of vagrants, junkies, pimps, and pushers FF1E;
Synonyms: stew
Related Words: slumdom, slumland; tobacco road; tenderloin; skid row; ghetto; hive, kennel, rookery, warren
Idioms: desolation row, the wrong side of the tracks