Subscribe English look up any word, like sex: 1. To live poorly,
or in below-average quality. Lifestyle that is below widely
accepted standards, in terms of health, nutrition and hygeine,
safety, and intelligence. Often linked with impoverished
lifestyle or frugal living.  2. In stasis, or semi-nomadic
state, surviving on bare minimum or below normal standards of
living. Some of the Boston MA WBCN radio guest DJs are known for
slumming it in Roxbury. by saharan February 08, 2007 57 24 In
the movie industry, when a mid- to high-profile actor, actress,
or (less frequently) director accepts a project considered far
enough beneath them to raise questions about their integrity,
they are considered to be slumming it.  There are a couple ways
this can pop up. A highly regarded actor that usually appears in
dramatic, "serious" works can appear in "low brow" entertainment
(e.g. Dame Judi Dench in The Chronicles of Riddick, Marlon
Brando in Superman), someone famous taking a role considered
damaging to their public ima