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| dump |
(informal) a house, town, or other place that is dirty, run-down, or despised. [1/10 definitions] |
| grungy |
(slang) dirty, messy, run-down; unpleasant. |
| heap |
(slang) a run-down car. [1/7 definitions] |
| inner city |
the neighborhoods in or closest to the center of a city, usu. old, run-down, and inhabited by poor and disadvantaged people. |
| rattletrap |
an unstable, rickety, rattling object, esp. a run-down automobile. |
| rattrap |
a building or place that is filthy or severely run-down. [1/2 definitions] |
| seedy |
squalid; run-down. [1/3 definitions] |
| shabby |
showing signs of wear; threadbare; run-down. [1/4 definitions] |
| skid row |
a run-down part of a city, frequented by society's outcasts; slum area. |
| tenement house |
an overcrowded, usu. run-down apartment building, esp. one in a slum area of an urban region. |
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