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skid row

 noun
     
skid row , Skid Row
1

be on skid row

informal if someone is on skid row, they drink too much alcohol and have no job, nowhere to live etc
2 [uncountable] used to talk about a part of a city with a lot of old buildings in bad condition, where poor people who drink too much alcohol spend their time
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