"slumlady" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: slumladies [plural]
Etymology: Blend of slum + landlady Etymology templates: {{blend|en|slum|landlady}} Blend of slum + landlady Head templates: {{en-noun}} slumlady (plural slumladies)
  1. (derogatory) a female slumlord. Tags: derogatory
    Sense id: en-slumlady-en-noun-4XQjI36B Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Charles Abrams, The City is the Frontier, page 317:",
          "text": "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)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Mountain Life & Work 1972-10: Vol 48 Iss 9, page 22:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Lee S. Friedman, Microeconomic Policy Analysis, page 217:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1984, Lee S. Friedman, Microeconomic Policy Analysis, page 217:",
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