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skid row definition

skid row

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

Etymology: altered < skid road

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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