单词 | hooverville |
释义 | Hoovervillen. U.S. A temporary shanty town. The reference is to the temporary accommodation provided for unemployed workers in the economic depression of the early 1930s. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > shanty town shanty town1876 Hooverville1933 bidonville1955 favela1961 pueblo joven1969 kasi1988 1933 New Republic 24 May 40/1 Hoovervilles are in a separate nation, with separate codes. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xix. 319 There was a Hooverville on the edge of every town. 1946 V. Lincoln in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 36 I found White Creek Row. It was the town's Hooverville..a tragic, shocking, sordid shanty town. 1949 Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 116 They called them ‘Hoovervilles’. Evicted families lived in tin-and-cardboard shacks. 1952 Economist 6 Sept. 554/2 A tragic island of unemployment, a new, 1952 Hooverville. 1973 J. Jones Touch of Danger xviii. 108 It was all like some weird..Hooverville. They were cooking their suppers over the open fires. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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