tobacco road
noun
a squalid and impoverished rural community.
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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
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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)
Example Sentences
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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
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