: a poor district of a city or town where there are inexpensive hotels, bars, etc., and where people who are homeless or who drink too much often go
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The council also opened the door to residential development in a portion of skid row bounded by 5th Street on the north, 7th Street on the south, San Pedro Street on the west and Central Avenue on the east.
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David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
In February, The Los Angeles Times reported that sanitation crews demolished an unofficial community-resource center in the city’s skid row in what officials called a regular cleanup.
—Jack Healy, New York Times, 10 May 2023
The Midnight Mission is serving nearly 2,000 people with a traditional Easter meal and hygiene items in front of its building in downtown L.A.’s skid row.
—Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
Kilo, a muscular gray pit bull, stood staunchly by his homeless owner in the middle of 6th Street on L.A.'s skid row.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
On Wednesday, Stewart followed Abadin past dozens of tents on skid row in Los Angeles.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
For years, it was known as the city’s skid row.
—Haru Coryne, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2020
The Times’ Jaimie Ding looked at the reasons for that, and some of the challenges faced by the facility, which sits on the edge of skid row.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
Monthly rent is about $400, an amount below even what other residential hotels on skid row charge.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
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David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
In February, The Los Angeles Times reported that sanitation crews demolished an unofficial community-resource center in the city’s skid row in what officials called a regular cleanup.
—Jack Healy, New York Times, 10 May 2023
The Midnight Mission is serving nearly 2,000 people with a traditional Easter meal and hygiene items in front of its building in downtown L.A.’s skid row.
—Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
Kilo, a muscular gray pit bull, stood staunchly by his homeless owner in the middle of 6th Street on L.A.'s skid row.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
On Wednesday, Stewart followed Abadin past dozens of tents on skid row in Los Angeles.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
For years, it was known as the city’s skid row.
—Haru Coryne, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2020
The Times’ Jaimie Ding looked at the reasons for that, and some of the challenges faced by the facility, which sits on the edge of skid row.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
Monthly rent is about $400, an amount below even what other residential hotels on skid row charge.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
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Etymology
alteration of skid road
First Known Use
circa 1931, in the meaning defined above
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skid row
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: a district of cheap saloons and cheap rooming houses in which vagrants and alcoholics live
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