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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

Illinois was next followed by Duke and North Carolina in a tough week for Tobacco Road.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

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

The Tobacco Road triad of Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State was about two hours east, and Knoxville, home of the Tennessee Volunteers, was less than three hours to the west.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2020