To smell out

Definition

slum /sl4m / n (က) ဆင္းရဲသားရပ္ကြက္။ brought up in the slums of London ❍ a slum area ❍ slum children ❍ slum clearance schemes. (ခ) (usu sing ) ယင္းရပ္ကြက္ရိွ အိမ္၊ အိမ္ခန္း။ ( fig ) This place is a slum—can't you keep it tidy? ဝက္သိုက္ က်ေနတာပဲ ၊ သန္႔သန္႔ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ မေနတတ္ဘူးလား။ v ( -mm- ) ( often derog or joc ) (usu in the continuous tenses) ဆင္းရဲသားရပ္ကြက္ထဲ ေလွ်ာက္ၾကည့္သည္။ ❏ slum it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆင္းရဲေသာ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္တြင္ ေန(ရ)သည္။ While he was studying, Nick had to slum it in a tiny room. ❏ slummy adj ( derog ) ညစ္ပတ္စုတ္ခ်ာေသာ။ a slummy district.

Examples

1. slum /sl4m / n (က) ဆင္းရဲသားရပ္ကြက္။ brought up in the slums of London