skid road

1. 1.

   the district of a town frequented by loggers

   Broaderquarter
2. 2.

   a road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled

   Broaderroad

Questions about skid road

What does skid road mean?

skid road means "the district of a town frequented by loggers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is skid road a common word?

skid road is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.