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truck farm

noun

  1. a farm or piece of land for the growing of vegetables and fruit for sale, especially to local or nearby markets.


truck farm

noun

  1. a market garden
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • truck farmer, noun
  • truck farming, noun
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Other Words From

  • truck farmer noun
  • truck farming noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of truck farm1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Mission Valley was all truck farms in those days.

In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition.

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.

Do you still go there to buy fresh produce from a truck farm, or bread like they used to make in the old country?

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.

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