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Hooverville


Hoo·ver·ville

H0272900 (ho͞o′vər-vĭl′)n. A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.
[After Herbert Clark Hoover.]

Hoo•ver•ville

(ˈhu vərˌvɪl)

n. a collection of huts and shacks housing the unemployed, esp. in the U.S. during the 1930s. [1930-35; after Herbert Hoover + -ville]

Hooverville


Hooverville

Depression shantytown arising during Hoover administration. [Amer. Hist.: Flexner, 118]See: Poverty
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