A squalid district inhabited by derelicts and vagrants; also, a life of impoverished dissipation.
Examples:
- His drinking was getting so bad we thought he was headed for skid row.
Origin: from skid road (lumber industry); skid row form c. 1930s
A squalid district inhabited by derelicts and vagrants; also, a life of impoverished dissipation.
Examples:
Origin: from skid road (lumber industry); skid row form c. 1930s