英和和英

語源

back +‎ slum

名詞

backslum (複数形 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.

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary