(~s)
1.
A ~ of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.
Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a ~ of Manchester.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n
2.
If you live in the ~s, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city.
His family lived in the ~s.
...Bombay’s ~s.
N-PLURAL: oft in the N