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skid row
noun- in any town, the run-down area where the socially disadvantaged and marginalised tend to congregate US, 1931
- Below this intersection, for a third of a mile, is a Skid Row as low and lousy as any in the country, with the usual in the way of flop houses, flea circuses, hoick shops, tattoo parlors[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 14, 1950
- Most American big cities have a “Skid Row”—a rundown, disreputable street lined with cheap slaoons, flophouses, all-night movies, burlesque shows, and hamburger joints[.] — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 212, 1954
- When on Skid Row, you must do as Skid Row does. You blend in. You take the Row as it leans, and merge into its decaying life[.] — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 11, 1966
- And on skid row -if you care to look–you may now and then see among the others a singularly doomed old man. — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 162, 1977
- [D]owntown where the food is slop. / Downtown where the hop-heads flop–in the snow / Down on skid row. — Howard Ashman, Skid Row (Downtown), 1982
- in prison, cells for troublesome prisoners UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 105, 1996
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