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Hoover hogs

Hoover hogs is the plural of Hoover hog.

Meaning of Hoover hog

Noun

Hoover hog (plural Hoover hogs)

  1. (Southern US, US, especially) An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.
    • Sometimes living on rabbits and squirrels , they described their fare as Hoover hogs. The President's rigid stand on the relief issue widened the gap between the Old Guard and the insurgents in the Republican party, and his differences with ...1971, Richard Brandon Morris, William Greenleaf, Robert H. Ferrell, America: a History of the People

Questions about Hoover hogs

What is Hoover hogs the plural of?
Hoover hogs is the plural of Hoover hog.

Words near Hoover hogs in the dictionary

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  8. Hoover shoe
  9. Hoover shoes
  10. hoover up
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