Slums Edit Meaning

1.

1. Another term for "ghetto." Except that slums would be used more to describe a metropolitan ghetto rather than a small town ghetto.

2. Originaly used to desribe the ghetto neighborhoods of New York city and Los Angeles.

(also see "hoodlums.")

I had to work real hard to rise up from the slums.

See ghetto, greasers, junkies, gangs

2.

for something "to suck" to an very high extent.

" Man im going to miss the game because i have to clean my room"

-" Aww dude that slums."

See sucks, not cool, bad, sad

3.

Melbourne slang; when a tram is packed and all of the seats are taken, one has to resort to sitting in the 'slums'. the slums are the steps of the tram near the electric doors.

person 1: shit this tram is packed!!!

person 2: lets just go sit in the slums...

See trams, melbourne, slum, public