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farm upstate

farm upstate noun: the place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.

Noun

farm upstate

  1. (US, euphemistic) The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.
    • What do parents tell their kids when they have to put their pet dog down? “We had to send li'l Fido to a farm upstate, honey....” Maybe that's where I'm going. The farm upstate. “We had to send li'l Spencer to the farm upstate, honey.2014, Clay McLeod Chapman, Academic Assassins
    • The convenience of online shopping is "irresistible," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "It's frankly no wonder that e-commerce is gradually chipping away at brick-and-mortar retail sales, and it can seem like the retail jobs are shifting, too," with warehouse jobs apparently...2019 July 1, “John Oliver dispels your happy, convenient illusions about shopping on Amazon”, in The Week, Johnsplaining

Examples of farm upstate in a sentence

  • "It's like hearing that there's actually a farm upstate where Borders, Circuit City, and Tower Records employees can run around and be free."2019 July 1, “John Oliver dispels your happy, convenient illusions about shopping on Amazon”, in The Week, Johnsplaining:
  • The iconic palm trees that line Park Avenue in downtown San Jose are pulling up roots and moving off the street. / No, they're not going to a farm upstate or retiring to a sunny beach somewhere.2019 November 22, Rosellen "Rosie" Downey, Silicon Valley Business Journal:
  • Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).2020 June 14, Josh Axelrod, Saeed Ahmed, “It's Flag Day. Here are some fun facts about the American flag you may not have known”, in CNN:

Questions about farm upstate

What does farm upstate mean?
Farm upstate means the place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.
How do you use farm upstate in a sentence?
"It's like hearing that there's actually a farm upstate where Borders, Circuit City, and Tower Records employees can run around and be free."
What part of speech is farm upstate?
Farm upstate is a noun.

Words near farm upstate in the dictionary

  1. farm stand
  2. farm stands
  3. farm team
  4. farm teams
  5. farm the strike
  6. farm upstate
  7. farm work
  8. farm worker
  9. farm workers
  10. farm works
  11. farm-house

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