heruntergekommene gegend

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German - English
skid row
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