DCHP-2

skid row † [alteration of skidroad] Slang DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1

  a city district characterized by cheap lodging houses, second-hand stores, low-class beer parlors and cafes, mission soup-kitchens, etc. and frequented largely by derelicts, transients, petty criminals and unskilled workers.

  See also: skidroad ((n.))  (def. 5b)  

• 2

  on skid row, down and out; in impoverished circumstances.