Slum, or BACK SLUM, a dark retreat, a low neighbourhood; as Westminster and East-end SLUMS, favourite haunts for thieves.
Slum, to hide, to pass to a confederate.
Slum, to saunter about, with a suspicion, perhaps, of immoral pursuits.—Cambridge University Slang.
Slum the gorger, to cheat on the sly, to be an eye-servant. Slum in this sense is old cant.
Slumgullion, any cheap, nasty, washy beverage. An Americanism best known in the Pacific States.
Slumming, passing bad money.
Slush, the grease obtained from boiling the salt pork eaten by seamen, and generally the cook’s perquisite.
Slushy, a ship’s cook.
Sluter, butter.—North.
Smack smooth, even, level with the surface, quickly.