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baby farm

noun

, Informal.
  1. a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
  2. a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.


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Other Words From

  • baby farmer noun
  • baby farming noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of baby farm1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

"It was like they were making a baby farm or something," Naomi Sisk told the Raleigh News and Observer.

She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.

I remember an old colored woman, she must be dead by this time, who kept a baby farm.

She placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.

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