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A rich person who over charges a run property to low income families. Neglecting the property, and tenants. Who uses the rental payments for their own personal needs instead of maintaining the property.
A slum lord would rather go skiing in Aspen with your rent, instead of fixing the broken roof. 2. My slum lords really dont care if the furnace broke in January. They replaced it with another broken one when they got back from Hawaii in April.
Slum Lord by Ralph Douglas July 25, 2015
People who own property and rent it out to low income people for more than the property is worth and never bother to keep the rentals up to health code standards. Rich people who make their money victimizing low income families.
We asked the land lord to fix the leaky water faucet, and get rid of the cockroaches, but he won't do it; the guy is just another 21st century slum lord.
slum lord by Merrily McCarthy July 17, 2003
Slum Lord = slum→an area best described as deprived of money(s). Lord→ some one who owns land, as the main purpose is in regards to financial return.
Financially embarrassed is not a reason to live in an decapitated house owned by a slum lord.
slum lord by badblock September 6, 2016
1. Describes an individual owning and providing rental property to a tenant. (Noun)

2. Sometimes also used as a derogatory term for someone in definition number 1 when that person does not provide care and maintenance for the property they own and profit from. (Noun)
"Rod is the perfect slum lord. Nothing in his building works right, and he won't invest the money to have anything fixed or replaced."
Slum Lord by Wordistopheles May 13, 2014
my slum lord rented me and my family a home w/sewage leaking out the back of the trailor,and no boby seems to care when i told him about it he said he had to pop a hole in the line and to just put somemore duck tape around it and it would b ok.
slum lord by destiny January 12, 2004

slum-lord 

(Not to be confused with slum lord): the most "socio-economically" affluent tenant of a given slum or shanty town.
I'd rather be a slum-lord than a drug lord
slum-lord by Uncle Dimma November 18, 2014
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fache-couture 

French slang, which translated, means "bull's fashion" but basically equates to "hyper trendy" or overly trendy. Used when a person wishes to express distaste at the latest fashion trend/fad, because it seems that everyone has a certain item of clothing or is wearing it. This term is most frequently heard in Paris but is slowly spreading to other parts of France.
1. That Burberry scarf is so fache-couture.
2. That purple American Apparel hoodie is so fache-couture.
fache-couture by bkgmh46x0x March 18, 2008
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