Blackacre, Whiteacre, and Greenacre are legal placeholder names for imaginary parcels of land, the real-estate cousins of doohickey and whatchamacallit. Lawyers and law students use them in hypotheticals about land transfers, taxes, and other...
When Megan in San Diego heard her father say he had to park way out in the back forty, he was using a farm expression for land far from the house, road, or main lot. The Dictionary of American Regional English gives back forty as a remote, large...