slumming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slum

plural slummings

1. countableuncountableA period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.

   Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter.

   1933, Dylan Thomas, From a Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry

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   Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]

   1942, Opera News, volume 7, page 26