Poverty Row

proper noun

The small and mostly short-lived B-movie studios in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s, many of them near what is now Gower Street.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historicalslangThe small and mostly short-lived B-movie studios in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s, many of them near what is now Gower Street.
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APA

Poverty Row. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poverty%20Row

MLA

“Poverty Row.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poverty%20Row. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Poverty Row,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poverty%20Row.

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