hooverville

Hooverville [hoo-ver-vil] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s. Liberaldictionary.com

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Origin of Hooverville H. Hoover + -ville, suffix in place names (French: city Latin; see villa) Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for hooverville Contemporary Examples of hooverville

Women could finally stop being Rosie the Riveter; men could stop living in Hooverville tents.

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Word Origin and History for hooverville Hooverville

1933, American English, from U.S. president Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964), who was in office when the Depression began, + common place-name ending -ville. Earlier his name was the basis of Hooverize “economize on food” (1917) from his role as wartime head of the U.S. Food Administration.

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