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Hoover flags

Hoover flags is the plural of Hoover flag.

Meaning of Hoover flag

Noun

Hoover flag (plural Hoover flags)

  1. (US, dated, idiomatic) An empty (penniless) pocket, turned inside out, showing that someone has no money (especially during the Great Depression.)
    • But drawing from my pants an old Hoover flag left over from my father's failed youth, I see I lack the least smudge of a penny to pay salvation's cover charge [...] with. So I begin circling the block drunkenly, in a holding pattern, [...]1982, Everette Maddox, The Everette Maddox Songbook, NEW ORLEANS POETRY JOURNAL, →ISBN, page 39

Questions about Hoover flags

What is Hoover flags the plural of?
Hoover flags is the plural of Hoover flag.

Words near Hoover flags in the dictionary

  1. Hoover bag
  2. Hoover bags
  3. Hoover blanket
  4. Hoover blankets
  5. Hoover flag
  6. Hoover flags
  7. Hoover hog
  8. Hoover hogs
  9. Hoover index
  10. Hoover shoe
  11. Hoover shoes

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