"bad part of town" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bad parts of town [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|bad parts of town}} bad part of town (plural bad parts of town)
  1. (informal) A dilapidated area of a city where many people live in a state of poverty and in which crime is more common than in other portions of the city. Tags: informal Related terms: slum
    Sense id: en-bad_part_of_town-en-noun-ZogV82~S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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