00:10
00:09
00:08
00:07
00:06
00:05
00:04
00:03
00:02
00:01
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| dust bowl | |
| —n | |
| a semiarid area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion and dust storms occur | |
| Dust Bowl | |
| —n | |
| the Dust Bowl the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s | |
A parched region of the Great Plains, including parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas, where a combination of drought and soil erosion created enormous dust storms in the 1930s. The novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, describes the plight of the “Okies” and “Arkies” uprooted by the drought and forced to migrate to California.