To hang out with someone of much different socialeconomic status usually for the reason of wanting to look cool or to feel more
connected with another culture very different from one's upbringing.
Usually there's a reason for such actions -- a
bullet on a
resume or being seen helping out one's fellow man.
Is that Generation X'er feeling the spirit of
volunteering or just slumming with those guys he smokes with on the steps of the Soup Kitchen.
Why's Greg slumming with that fat unemployed single Latino mom? He's got a degree and a good job. Well, he's not over his divorce and he just wants to enjoy
something light, fun and very sexual. He says he can talk her into anything. He'll
get over her and move back up to someone more his level soon enough.