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Hooverville

noun

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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Noun

As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
Late one night in Payatas, a shantytown near a garbage dump in Manila’s outskirts, Santiago knocked on the door of a funeral office.

— Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of shantytown

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And car manufacturers knew that customers would buy into that, even though more families were using their cars to go to the grocery store rather than driving through the jungle.

— Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of jungle

Noun

Mayor Eric Adams prioritized eliminating encampments by pursuing an aggressive strategy of criminalization and encampment sweeps led by the NYPD, and expanded use of involuntary hospitalizations.

— Dave Giffen, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026
The Italian Family Festa heads into its second day today, July 26, at San Jose’s History Park with bocce and kids’ activities, music, food and wine — and cultural displays including a Roman encampment and Renaissance-era flag waving.

— Jose Carlos Fajardo, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

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