Tobacco Road Definition
noun
A poverty-stricken rural community.
American Heritage
pronoun
(pejorative) Poor and uneducated rural Southerners.
Wiktionary
A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated.
Wiktionary
Dilapidated housing as might be found in the rural American South.
Wiktionary
Origin of Tobacco Road
There were and are many roads of this name in the American South. The meanings are derived from the 1931 novel, Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell and the 1932 play and 1941 movie derived from it.
From Wiktionary
After Tobacco Road , a novel by Erskine Caldwell
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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