Hooverville
[ hoo-ver-vil ]
noun
a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
Origin of Hooverville
1After (Herbert) Hoover, then-president of the United States + -ville)
Words Nearby Hooverville
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How to use Hooverville in a sentence
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.
Too Soon to Write: Choire Sicha’s ‘Very Recent History’ | Stefan Beck | August 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWomen could finally stop being Rosie the Riveter; men could stop living in Hooverville tents.
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