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slumming

To hang out with someone of much different socialeconomic status usually for the reason of wanting to look cool or to feel more connected with another culture very different from one's upbringing.

Usually there's a reason for such actions -- a bullet on a resume or being seen helping out one's fellow man.
Is that Generation X'er feeling the spirit of volunteering or just slumming with those guys he smokes with on the steps of the Soup Kitchen.

Why's Greg slumming with that fat unemployed single Latino mom? He's got a degree and a good job. Well, he's not over his divorce and he just wants to enjoy something light, fun and very sexual. He says he can talk her into anything. He'll get over her and move back up to someone more his level soon enough.
by Z train April 14, 2006
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crumb slumming

The act of digging for, scooping out open palm, or smoothing a bag of chips and pouring it into your mouth in the attempt to devour the chip crumbs/flavor dust while friends/family/coworkers/strangers look on with disapproving eyes at the sight of something they would totally do if no one was watching.
Yo Gary, look at Kate crumb slumming it with that bag of doritos. Apparently the only thing on a diet is her dignity.
by cmod18 July 28, 2011
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slumming

Dating or, usually, fucking someone much less attractive than oneself.
I've been extra horny lately, so I've been slumming.
by BigKiss November 9, 2003
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slummin

To be in a (foul mood).To feel so low that it feels that you could be living in the slums at that moment.
Yo I just got a 50 on my test. Yeah me too. Damn Im slummin.

Yo You Sluumin.Yeah Im slummin.
by Jason Tannenbaum September 24, 2008
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slumming it

1. To live poorly, or in below-average quality. Lifestyle that is below widely accepted standards, in terms of health, nutrition and hygeine, safety, and intelligence. Often linked with impoverished lifestyle or frugal living.

2. In stasis, or semi-nomadic state, surviving on bare minimum or below normal standards of living.
Some of the Boston MA WBCN radio guest DJs are known for slumming it in Roxbury.
by saharan February 10, 2007
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slumming

Young-ish, wealthy parasites feeding off the lifestyles of the urban working classes in order to appear cool or hard. These hypocrites typically hang with their new poorer friends for a while, find out the daily grind isn't exactly what they had envisioned, get bored or scared or tired of having to actually work for once, and then return to their trust funds.
For the quintessential example of slumming, listen to Pulp's album A Different Class, and their song "Common People".
by AliceInHell July 20, 2008
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Slummin' it

To date or see someone totally below your standards just to get laid.
Douchebag#1 What made you decide to go out with that brown bagger?
Douchebag#2 I just needed to get laid. I'm Slummin' it.
by JayC98 September 28, 2008
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