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SKID ROW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skid row mean?
• SKID ROW (noun)
The noun SKID ROW has 1 sense:
1. a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts
Familiarity information: SKID ROW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("skid row" is a kind of...):
slum; slum area (a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions)
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