Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.

any squalid, run-down place to live.

to visit slums, esp. from curiosity.

to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

noun

blighted area , public squalor , run-down neighborhood , shanty town , skid row , tenement housingnotes:a slum and a ghetto are different - if everyone is ethnically similar , it is a ghetto and if everyone is basically poor , it is a slum , alley , barrio , dump , ghetto , tenement