Home › Words › S › slumburbslumburbslumburb means A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, slumburb ranks #3,411 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyBlend of slum + suburb.nounA poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.e.g.“And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex.” — 1995, J. R. Dunn, This Side of Judgment, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).