A fork of Rural Dictionary
A more formal name for the ghetto.
It's hard to believe that some people ACTUALLY take pride in living in the slums. They sure must love the poverty, violence, and poor educational system of such an environment.
In an online game, a highly rated expert player joining a game against newbies and low-ranked players may be said to be "slumming".
Hey Power Player, what are you doing in our low level game? Slumming?
n. The act of touring through the poor side of town to gawk and make fun of the inhabitants there, usually with a group of one's friends. Notably an activity of insecure rich white kids.
Matt: Hey Jimmie, you wanna cut out after school in my dad's Hummer and do some slumming?
Jim: Hell yeah! I love knowing that there's plenty of trash out there to keep the burgers flippin'.
Descriptive of anything displeasing, of low quality, unskilled, unattractive, or lazy.
In a general sense, it can be used to describe anything in a negative way
1) "Jamal was slummin' at hoops today."
2) "My test grade was so slum! I got an F"
3) "The paint job on that car is so slum!"
Luxury Trailer park in Jackson New Jersey. Home of Hoop The Mountain Man.
something that basically doing bad or is undesirable. Commonly used in Washington DC slang. also see "slummin".
Ay, I don't know what was up with Tony on the basketball court today. Usually he scores at least 12 points per game, but today he was slumming -- only scoring 3 points and giving 4 turn overs.
to act out throughout the day as a bum; to do nothing all day
John woke up on Sunday morning and decided that he will slum all day and do nothing.