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• tobacco road
  tobacco road

  noun

  a squalid and impoverished rural community.
• Tobacco Road
  Tobacco Road

  (1932) A novel by the American author Erskine Caldwell, about a family of sharecroppers (see sharecropping) from Georgia and their many tragedies.

tobacco road

American  

noun

1. a squalid and impoverished rural community.

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Tobacco Road Cultural  

1. (1932) A novel by the American author Erskine Caldwell, about a family of sharecroppers (see sharecropping) from Georgia and their many tragedies.

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Etymology

Origin of tobacco road

From the novel of the same name (1932) by U.S. author Erskine Caldwell (1903–87)

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Since then he has ventured beyond tobacco road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now Clarence had designs of escaping tobacco road.

From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron

It would be a “great games” list without one matchup along Tobacco Road.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The Blue Devils’ season had just come to a sudden and dramatic end after their 81-77 loss to North Carolina, their Tobacco Road rival, in the Final Four.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

Of course, as tantalizing as Tobacco Road planting itself in New Orleans next week may be to some, it would be nauseating to just as many.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2022

They bowed far from Tobacco Road toward eastern Washington, 18 miles from the Idaho border, and central Texas, a hundred minutes above the great Austin.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2021

It’s the first of two meetings between the Tobacco Road rivals.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2020