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row to hoe

row to hoe noun: a task or responsibility that must be attended to.

Noun

row to hoe (plural rows to hoe)

  1. A task or responsibility that must be attended to.
    • Look, I don't even know what I'd want to say to all the gay black males in the very small United States of America. Let me see. How about, "There're maybe a couple million of us, and we have a tough row to hoe, brother. But don't let the bastards get you down"?1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 207
  2. An occupation or business by which one earns one's living or makes a profit.

Forms of row to hoe

pluralrows to hoe

Words formed from row to hoe

Questions about row to hoe

What does row to hoe mean?
Row to hoe means a task or responsibility that must be attended to.
What part of speech is row to hoe?
Row to hoe is a noun.
What is the plural of row to hoe?
The plural of row to hoe is rows to hoe.

Words near row to hoe in the dictionary

  1. row houses
  2. row in the same boat
  3. row of pins
  4. row space
  5. row spaces
  6. row to hoe
  7. row up
  8. row vector
  9. row vectors
  10. row Z
  11. row-back

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