[slum] n, often attrib [origin unknown] (1825): a densely populated usu. urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization
[2]slum vi slummed ; slum.ming (1884): to visit slums esp. out of curiosity; broadly: to go somewhere or do something that might be considered beneath one's station--sometimes used with it "slumming it in a cabin without plumbing" -- slum.mer n