slumming

slumming

English

Verb

slumming

1. present participle of slum

Noun

slumming (plural slummings)

1. A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
   • 1933, Dylan Thomas, From a Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry

     Few understand the works of Cummings,
     And few James Joyce's mental slummings,
     And few young Auden's coded chatter;
     But then it is the few that matter.

   • 1942, Opera News (volume 7, page 26)

     Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]