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

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slumming

Source Word

slumming

Noun

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

Japanese Meaning

（上流階級の人が）下層階級の人々との交流や、低い社会的地位の人々との活動に従事する期間 / 一時的に自分より下位の社会的地位を持つ人々との交流や体験活動をする期間

After his promotion, he indulged in occasional slumming to remind himself how the other half lived.

昇進した後、彼はときどき格下の人々とつき合うことで、他の人の暮らしがどんなものかを思い出すのを楽しんだ。

Sense（1）

A 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.

slummings

（ plural ）