backslum
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
backslum (plural backslums)
- A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
- 1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392:
- 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.
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary