backslum
nounEtymology From back + slum.
1
A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
- 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.1875, Henry Sampson, A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, page 392:
- He was wrong there, for around the second next corner they ran into quite a different sort of landscape; a jumbled up place of city residences and back slums[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 30: