tobacco road

noun

1. a squalid and impoverished rural community.

Tobacco Road

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tobacco road¹

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

Example Sentences

Tobacco Road is crass and deranged and irreducibly American.

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