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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 farm
noun
- a market garden
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Derived Forms
- truck farmer, noun
- truck farming, noun
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Other Words From
- truck farmer noun
- truck farming 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.
From Los Angeles Times
In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition.
From Literature
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
Do you still go there to buy fresh produce from a truck farm, or bread like they used to make in the old country?
From Seattle Times
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
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