truck crop

noun

1. a vegetable crop raised on a truck farm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of truck crop¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

Beattie, W. R. Tomatoes as a truck crop.

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Half hour question and answer exercise on "Truck Crop and Garden Insects," led by Professor Wm.

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On the Atlantic seaboard, the more enterprising man will use the third field for rotation, and sell some of the fertility of the western grain in the form of a truck crop.

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For the truck crop was bringing them in a bigger sum of money than even Hiram had expected.

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