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Hoo⋅ver⋅ville

  [hoo-ver-vil]
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–noun
a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
Origin:
H. Hoover + -ville, suffix in place names (< F: city < L; see villa )
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Hoo·ver·ville   (hōō'vər-vĭl')   
n.  A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.

[After Herbert Clark Hoover.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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