slumlady

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noun

a female slumlord.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounslumlady (plural slumladies)

plural slumladies

  1. derogatorya female slumlord.

    Many of the aging will be found in older sections, too, and a good landlady may be a good shepherd as well as a slumlord (or slumlady)

    1965, Charles Abrams, The City is the Frontier, page 317
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    We knew we had to move but we wanted to show other people what Mrs. Ballard — a slumlady — was like and what we were doing to file for decent living conditions. With our picket and TV and Radio coverage we told our story to many.

    1972, Mountain Life & Work 1972-10: Vol 48 Iss 9, page 22

    An interesting game of this type is known as the Slumlord’s Dilemma. Imagine that two slum owners, Slumlady Sally and Slumlord Larry, have adjacent tenements. Each owner knows the following: if both invest in improving their tenements, they will have the nicest low-rent apartments in the city and will earn high returns on their investments (say an extra profit of $5000 each). On the other hand, if, say, Slumlord Larry invests but Slumlady Sally does not, then Larry will lose his shirt but Sally will make out like a bandit.

    1984, Lee S. Friedman, Microeconomic Policy Analysis, page 217

Origin

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