Hooverville

[ hoo-ver-vil ]

noun

1. a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hooverville¹

After (Herbert) Hoover, then-president of the United States + -ville )

Example Sentences

We might prefer to read, as a comment on the crisis, an account of life in a Bakken shale “man camp” or a Sacramento Hooverville.

From The Daily Beast

Women could finally stop being Rosie the Riveter; men could stop living in Hooverville tents.

From The Daily Beast