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Slum vs Slue - What's the difference?

slum | slue |

As nouns the difference between slum and slue

is that slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty while slue is the act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.

As verbs the difference between slum and slue

is that slum is to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own while slue is to rotate something on an axis.

slum

English

(wikipedia slum)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
  • Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge [...] you will find groups of boys [...] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber [...].
  • :*Charles Dickens, Gambling .
  • Derived terms

    * slumdog * slumdom

    Verb

    (slumm)
  • To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
  • To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
  • Anagrams

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    slue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (mostly British ) slew

    Verb

    (slu)
  • (nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
  • To turn something sharply.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • They laughed, and slued themselves round.
  • To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
  • To slide off course; to skid.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
  • A slough; a run or wet place.
  • Anagrams

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