slumming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of slum

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]”