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

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How about baby drama with little Abijean and the Wee Baby Seamus?
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He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
‘Nazi Cows’ Tried to Kill British Farmer|Tom Sykes|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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Three months ago, the two had a baby together and the Internet mostly just shrugged.
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Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
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She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
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It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
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