Howdy!
Thanks for returning to our Western Word of the Day column. The next few weeks I'm drifting a little bit away from what we think of as truly "western" words to focus on some other vocabulary term that I've learned and wanted to share.
Skid Row or skidrow - logging road; came to be known as a poor or impoverished neighborhood
Origins of the term:
For logging road, a "skid" was a greased log.
Neighborhoods used to be known as "rows".
Source:
History Channel, "America's Secret Slang" video series
www.history.com/shows/americas-secret-slang
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