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tobacco road
noun
- a squalid and impoverished rural community.
Tobacco Road
- (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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Word History and Origins
Origin of tobacco road1
From the novel of the same name (1932) by U.S. author Erskine Caldwell (1903–87)
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