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slumburbs

slumburbs is the plural of slumburb.

Meaning of slumburb

Noun

slumburb (plural slumburbs)

  1. A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.
    • And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex.1995, J. R. Dunn, This Side of Judgment, →ISBN

Questions about slumburbs

What is slumburbs the plural of?
Slumburbs is the plural of slumburb.

Words near slumburbs in the dictionary

  1. slumbrous
  2. slumbrously
  3. slumbrousness
  4. slumbry
  5. slumburb
  6. slumburbs
  7. slumdog
  8. slumdogs
  9. slumdom
  10. slumdoms
  11. slumdweller

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