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skid row n (chiefly Canada, US, informal)

(derogatory) An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people. (figuratively) A situation of great desperation or misfortune.

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