truck farm
Americannoun
noun
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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
The grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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