skid row

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von skid row im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

Relevante Übersetzungen

be on skid row

{k} serseri ve sefil bir hale düşmüş olmak

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von skid row im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A colloquial designation of a run-down district of Los Angeles

An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by run-down or abandoned buildings, alcoholism and homelessness, and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution

A squalid district inhabited chiefly by derelicts and vagrants

a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts

poor neighborhood, poverty-stricken area (Slang)

You can refer to the poorest part of town, where drunks and homeless people live, as skid row. He became a skid row type of drunkard. A squalid district inhabited chiefly by derelicts and vagrants

Relevante Übersetzungen

skidrow

Alternative spelling of skid row

Türkische aussprache

skîd rō

Synonyme

skid road, bowery, favela, ghetto, red-light district, tenderloin

Aussprache

/ˈskəd ˈrō/ /ˈskɪd ˈroʊ/

Etymologie

() Probably from skid road (“a road along which logs were skidded”), transferred to the streets of towns where loggers had recreation on their time off.