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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SLUM  , a squalid, dirty

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street or
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quarter in a
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city,
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town or
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village, inhabited by the very poor, destitute or criminal classes; over-crowding is frequently another characteristic (see
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HOUSING) . The word is a comparatively
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recent one and is of uncertain origin . It has been doubtfully connected with a dialectal use of " slump " in the sense of a marshy, swampy
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place; cf . Ger . Schlamm, mud, and Eng.
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dialect slammock, slattern (
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Skeat, Etym . Did., 1910) .

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