Usually means: Shantytowns during the Great Depression.
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  1. Hooverville: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hooverville: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hooverville: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hooverville: Wordnik
  5. Hooverville: Wiktionary
  6. Hooverville: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Hooverville: Dictionary.com
  8. Hooverville: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Hooverville: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Hooverville: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Hooverville: Encyclopedia

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  1. Hooverville: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. hooverville: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (historical) Any of many shantytowns established by the homeless in the United States in the Great Depression of the early twentieth century.

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