baby farm

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noun Informal.

a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.

a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.

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Origin of baby farm

First recorded in 1865–70

OTHER WORDS FROM baby farm

baby farmer, nounbaby farming, noun

Words nearby baby farm

baby carriage, baby coach, baby daddy, baby doll, baby face, baby farm, baby fat, baby food, baby grand, Babylon, Babylonia

How to use baby farm in a sentence

"It was like they were making a baby farm or something," Naomi Sisk told the Raleigh News and Observer.
The 'Black Hebrew' Cult Murder Case|Winston Ross|April 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.
Mr. Punch's Country Life|Various
I remember an old colored woman, she must be dead by this time, who kept a baby farm.
Half a Man|Mary White Ovington
She placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.
A Gallant Grenadier|F.S. Brereton