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no-go area
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
no-go area
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dartmoor in Devon was declared a no-go area, and three royal parks in London were shut to protect deer herds.
▪ It is Labour's only no-go area in the entire world.
▪ Knoydart is not exactly a no-go area but should be entered with caution.
WordNet
no-go area

n. an area that is dangerous or impossible to enter or to which entry is forbidden

Wikipedia
No-go area

"No-go area" (or "no-go zone") is an area in a town barricaded off to civil authorities by a force such as a paramilitary, or barred to certain individuals or groups. It has also been used to refer to areas undergoing insurgency where ruling authorities have lost control and are unable to enforce sovereignty.

Usage examples of "no-go area".

But he thought he could still detect a sort of no-go area around them.

Just so long as no-one could see or hear what was going on inside it remained under a flag of uneasy truce, on the frontline of a no-go area.

These guys would walk into a no-go area and you'd assume they had a perfect right to be there just because they behaved as if they had.

These were violent times, so the idea of a no-go area for Charity residents was ridiculous—.