backslum

English

Etymology

back +‎ slum

Noun

backslum (plural backslums)

1. A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
   • 1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392:

     It is now about the foulest specimen extant of that kind of backslum or alley where, a generation back, according to Hood, pigs and Irish were wont to rally.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary