I'm not even sure if it's spelled that way...
2006-11-25 04:20:06 · 9 answers · asked by GreenEyedFox 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
it's where the bums, drunks and other homeless live and hangout. usually the street and really shabby cheap apartments. it's not slums. it where the least desired of society live or try to live. slums are just bad places. if you say skidrow you're talking about the kind of people that live there as well.
2006-11-25 04:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first skid row was Skid Road (Yesler Way) in Seattle, where logs were skidded into the water on a corduroy road for delivery to Henry Yesler's lumber mills. During the Great Depression, the area went into decline, and "skid row" became synonymous with "bad neighborhood."
The Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose Skid Row is on the north end of Main Street around Hastings Street, more commonly called the Downtown Eastside, holds that their own Skid Row was the first. Seattle and Vancouver are geographical and cultural neighbours, and their Skid Rows went through roughly parallel development.
2006-11-25 12:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The American term skid row or skid road is used to refer to a rundown or dilapidated urban area. There are neighborhoods formally identified as Skid Row in Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as informally identified districts in almost every major American city, such as The Bowery in New York City. The term was memorialized in the song "Skid Row" from the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
2006-11-25 12:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to websters dictionary skid row means : a district of cheap saloons frequented by vagrants and alcoholics. It is also a name of a musical band.
2006-11-25 12:51:44 · answer #4 · answered by babygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A section of Los Angeles where the homeless live.
2006-11-25 12:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's spelled as "skid row".
Definition: A squalid district inhabited chiefly by derelicts and vagrants.
- From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/skid+row
2006-11-25 12:25:39 · answer #6 · answered by papyrus 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
skid row
an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
2006-11-25 12:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by the golden goose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEP. IT'S SKID ROW - IT'S AN EXPRESSION PEOPLE USED TO USE FOR WHERE THE HOMELESS AND DRUNKS USED TO SLEEP.....LOOK IT UP ON WWW.DICTIONARY.COM FOR A BETTER ANSWER.
2006-11-25 12:23:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the same as "mud on your flaps."
2006-11-25 12:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by wheels 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋