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tobacco road

American  

noun

  1. a squalid and impoverished rural community.

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.

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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