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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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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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In some ultra-competitive genres—Northern soul, hip-hop, jungle—selectors have been known to cover up the center stickers of their records, or leave white labels unmarked, to throw boothsnooping DJs off the scent.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
The journey leads from the jungle into the Andes — and from fieldwork into memory, exile and family loss.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 17 July 2026

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The lawsuit alleges that federal pressure on the university following the encampments led to Thrasher’s suspension, internal disciplinary charges, denial of tenure and upcoming termination.

— Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
The free festa features a wine garden and tastings, a cultural and culinary stage, live entertainment, a grape stomp, Roman encampment and sword demos, a children’s zone and an Italian fashion show.

— Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 19 July 2026

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