Hooverville

The definition of Hooverville was a roughly made camp for depression-era homeless and poor.

(noun)

An example of a Hooverville was the camp on the Great Lawn of New York’s Central Park.

See Hooverville in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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.

Origin:

Origin: After Herbert Clark Hoover

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