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Hooverville
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Hoo·ver·ville  (hvr-vl)
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.]


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It is not one of the wretched labor camps, the infamous Hoovervilles, where farmers fleeing the Oklahoma dust bowl lived in shacks of cardboard and flattened tin cans during the Great Depression.
 
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