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

They called it Hoover Town — a variation of Hooverville, the title given to many such homeless camps around the nation in sardonic tribute to President Hoover.

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As you watch the movie, pay attention to the scene with the Smith Tower, at the time the tallest building on the West Coast, seen in the distance from Hooverville, a shantytown on the tidal flats near our waterfront.

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He’s there when Mason visits the Gallardo family’s Hooverville to ferret out the initial tip about Ozzie and his Converse shoes.

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Perry and Della’s investigator Paul travels to the Hooverville where the Gallardo brothers lived, where he quickly and cleverly acquires the gun used in the Brooks McCutcheon murder and traces it to the brothers.

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This week, we’ve got a series of rats standing against a black background getting shot at, just like the critters the kids in the Gallardos’ Hooverville attempt to hunt and eat.

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