truck farm
noun
a farm or piece of land for the growing of vegetables and fruit for sale, especially to local or nearby markets.
truck farms
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pluralof truck farm.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mission Valley was all truck farms in those days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
It’s a New Yorker’s argument—no Jersey truck farms without Manhattan diners—but it’s not one that has won general assent among historians of early civilizations.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
The crossroads kept its rural character into the 1950s, with a corner store, a beer joint, truck farms and peach orchards.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2014
Where GMO crops aren’t likely grown is on the rocky San Juan Islands, where truck farms sell almost all their output to local residents and chefs.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2014
He raced between desolate-looking corn-fields with bare stalks and patches of muddy earth rising above the thin covering of snow, truck farms and brick-yards fell behind him on either side.
From Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
