tobacco road
noun
a squalid and impoverished rural community.
Origin of tobacco road
1From the novel of the same name (1932) by U.S. author Erskine Caldwell (1903–87)
Words Nearby tobacco road
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How to use tobacco road in a sentence
tobacco road is crass and deranged and irreducibly American.
American Dreams: ‘Tobacco Road’ by Erskine Caldwell | Nathaniel Rich | April 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Cultural definitions for 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.
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