skid row

a usually run-down section of a city frequented by indigent alcoholics, vagrants, derelicts, etc.

Origin: altered < skid road

See skid row in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Slang
A squalid district inhabited chiefly by derelicts and vagrants.

Origin:

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

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