skid row

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skid row (r

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n. Slang

A squalid district inhabited chiefly by derelicts and vagrants.

[Alteration of skid road (from the fact that it once referred to a downtown area frequented by loggers).]

skid row [rəʊ], skid road

Slang chiefly US and Canadian a dilapidated section of a city inhabited by vagrants, etc.

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Noun

skid row - a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts

slum, slum area - a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

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