skid road
- noun
- /skɪd roʊd/
- Archaic
:
barrio de leñadores
- He spent his early years working in the bars along skid road.
Examples
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The town's skid road was bustling with activity during the logging season.
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Rumors about the dangers of skid road kept many locals away after dark.
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The local skid road is known for its rough bars.
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Many loggers gather at the skid road after work.
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He spent his early years working in the bars along skid road.
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Rumors about the dangers of skid road kept many locals away after dark.
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The town's skid road was bustling with activity during the logging season.
Synonyms
3
7.7
An area of a city where many homeless people live and buildings look run down
1
7.0
An unpleasant run-down place where few people want to live
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a rough district frequented by loggers' cannot be derived from the literal meanings of 'skid' (a support or sliding action) and 'road' (a way); this is a historically rooted, region-specific idiom whose semantics have shifted from logging practice to a type of neighborhood. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not reliably infer this figurative, culture-bound meaning without prior exposure, so it is opaque.
Etymology
Skid road later became the name for the area beside the logging path. Because loggers and rough bars gathered there, people used the name for 'a rough part of town'.