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skid row Chiefly N. Amer.|skɪd rəʊ|
Also with capital initials.
[Altered f. skid road (b) s.v. skid n. 5.]
a. Any run-down area of a town where the unemployed, vagrants, alcoholics, etc., tend to congregate. Also fig.
1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 170 Skid row, the district where workers congregate when in town or away from their job. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 107/1 Skid row, district in a city where tramps (bums) congregate. 1942Crisis Oct. 314/1 Here, a short walk up from ‘Skid Row’,..is haven for men of all races. 1944N. & Q. Nov. 120/2 A skidrow..is a district (mostly in western cities) where unskilled workers..gather to look for jobs—a district of employment agencies, cheap flop-houses, etc. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie viii. 80 When the time came for my sendoff shot, I was assigned to Ward B—‘Skid Row’, it was called. 1959New Statesman 26 Dec. 899/2 Described in a report by a church mission as the nearest thing to ‘Skid Row’ that we have, it is a festering slum hidden in a narrow valley between the backs of lush shops in Firth Street, and Caxton Hill. 1963Economist 13 July 125/1 The grisly inhabitants of the numerous urban ‘skid rows’. 1977D. M. Smith Human Geogr. xi. 338 The concentration of social deviants in the local ‘Skid Row’ produces freak figures.
b. attrib.
1948Sun (Baltimore) 18 Sept. 3/2 Salisbury was a skid⁓row alcoholic when he was committed to Eloise. 1962Times 1 Feb. 5/3 The ‘skid-row’ pictures painted in Seattle. 1973E. B. Ritson in Howe & Loraine Environmental Med. xvi. 216 The grim environment of the skid⁓row districts of cities tends to attract social misfits. 1980N. Marsh Photo-Finish i. 18 He disguises himself..like a Skid Row drop-out. |