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Hooverville
[ hoo-ver-vil ]
noun
- a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Hooverville1
After (Herbert) Hoover, then-president of the United States + -ville )
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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.
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