baby farm
nounInformal.
a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.
Origin of baby farm
1First recorded in 1865–70
Other words from baby farm
- baby farmer, noun
- baby farming, noun
Words Nearby baby farm
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How to use baby farm in a sentence
"It was like they were making a baby farm or something," Naomi Sisk told the Raleigh News and Observer.
She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.
Mr. Punch's Country Life | VariousI remember an old colored woman, she must be dead by this time, who kept a baby farm.
Half a Man | Mary White OvingtonShe placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.
A Gallant Grenadier | F.S. Brereton
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