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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

slum it en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
    • There's nothing rich folks love more than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor. 2015, Lin-Manuel Miranda, “The Schuyler Sisters”, in Hamilton:
    • The private jets eventually went, Khashoggi having to slum it on commercial airlines. 2017 June 7, Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'”, in The Independent, London:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
slums it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
slummed it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
slummed it Tense=Past lexicographic
slumming it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic