Hooverville
[ hoo-ver-vil ]
/ ˈhu vərˌvɪl /
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noun
a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
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Origin of Hooverville
After (Herbert) Hoover, then-president of the United States + -ville)
Words nearby Hooverville
hoover, hoover apron, Hoover Dam, Hoover, Herbert, Hoover, J. Edgar, Hooverville, Hoovervilles, hooves, hop, hopak, Hopatcong
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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.
Women could finally stop being Rosie the Riveter; men could stop living in Hooverville tents.