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rows to hoe

rows to hoe is the plural of row to hoe.

Meaning of row to hoe

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.

Questions about rows to hoe

What is rows to hoe the plural of?
Rows to hoe is the plural of row to hoe.

Words near rows to hoe in the dictionary

  1. rowports
  2. Rowrah
  3. rows
  4. rows back
  5. rows in the same boat
  6. rows to hoe
  7. rows up
  8. rowse
  9. rowsed
  10. Rowsell
  11. Rowsells

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