Proper noun
A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.
A region of North Carolina historically associated with the production of tobacco.
(sports, slang) The four North Carolina schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated people who live in dilapidated structures.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. James Thurber
Terry and Wendell Enzor, who live next to Rouse on Tobacco Road, were home at the time of the shooting. Source: Internet
The following break-ins were reported Tuesday to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office: Stephen Little, N.C. 20 West, Lumber Bridge; Roseann Baker, Ronald Boulevard, Lumberton; and Jeremy Bethea, Tobacco Road, Orrum. Source: Internet