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To "plow the back 40" is to cultivate, for agricultural purposes, 40 acres of uncultivated land adjacent to some cultivated land. I don't know why 40 acres has become the standard value to use in this expression...

The phrase also has a sexual euphemistic meaning; specifically, to have sex.

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