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Meaning of backslum | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.

Examples

“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.”
“He was wrong there, for around the second next corner they ran into quite a different sort of landscape; a jumbled up place of city residences and back slums[.]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

backsolution backsolver backsourcing Backspace Backspaced backspacer

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