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Hooverville

Hoo·ver·ville [ hvər vìl ] (plural Hoo·ver·villes)


noun 
Definition:
 
camp for destitute people: a camp erected on the outskirts of a city during the Great Depression of the 1930s to house the poor and homeless

[After Herbert Hoover, president at the time]
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