truck farm
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Origin of truck farm
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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When he was 9, the family moved to Garden City, where they lived in a Sears and Roebuck house on the west end of town and transformed their city block into a truck farm.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
“Dad was about 13. He rode out there, got work on a truck farm in the valley.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2015
His father abandoned the family when John was quite young, and he grew up on his grandparents’ truck farm in central Pennsylvania.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the edge of Haarlem was a truck farm that hid refugees for short periods of time.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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