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backslums

backslums is the plural of backslum.

Meaning of backslum

Noun

backslum (plural backslums)

  1. A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
    • It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally.1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392

Questions about backslums

What is backslums the plural of?
Backslums is the plural of backslum.

Words near backslums in the dictionary

  1. backsliding
  2. backslidings
  3. backslope
  4. backslopes
  5. backslum
  6. backslums
  7. backsold
  8. backsolution
  9. backsolutions
  10. backsolvable
  11. backsolve

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