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Hooverville

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Definition of Hooverville

as in shantytown

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Recent Examples of Hooverville Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes. — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023

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Deep Cut, the ragtag band from previous Splatoon titles, has cobbled together a shantytown at sea, which serves as homebase.

— Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026

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In Mina, the encampment outside Mecca where millions of pilgrims stay each year, buffet catering is provided, along with occasional surprises such as popcorn machines and ice cream.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Of course there is a fire risk associated with sleeping rough, but most encampment fires start in dense neighborhoods like Skid Row.

— Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

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The film will adapt one of the most powerful segments of the play, addressing the real case of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, a ten-year-old boy killed on April 2, 2015, in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans.

— Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026

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