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Hoovervilles

Hoovervilles is the plural of Hooverville.

Meaning of Hooverville

Noun

Hooverville (plural Hoovervilles)

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

Questions about Hoovervilles

What is Hoovervilles the plural of?
Hoovervilles is the plural of Hooverville.

Words near Hoovervilles in the dictionary

  1. Hooverizings
  2. Hoovernomics
  3. hoovers
  4. hoovers up
  5. Hooverville
  6. Hoovervilles
  7. hooves
  8. hooving
  9. hoowee
  10. hooyah
  11. hop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hoovervilles (page history and authors); Hooverville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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