"Hoover blanket" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Herbert Hoover, US president at the start of the Great Depression, + blanket.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Hoover blankets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "Hoover blanket (plural Hoover blankets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "name": "American English",
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            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Earth",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Joseph Robert Conlin, A survey of American history since 1865, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The shantytowns where homeless thousands dwelled were called Hoovervilles; newspapers used as blankets by men who were forced to sleep on park benches were Hoover blankets; a pocket turned inside out was a Hoover flag […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Rosemarie Ostler, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "The newly unemployed stood in breadlines and slept on park benches under Hoover blankets made of newspaper.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Preserver of Spirit and Hope, Nova Science Pub Incorporated",
          "text": "Poverty became a way of life for 40 million Americans as laid off workers roamed the streets sleeping under Hoover 'blankets' - old newspapers. By 1933 the number of unemployed would mount to between 13 and 15 million […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, L.M. Sutter, Arlie Latham: A Baseball Biography of the Freshest Man on Earth, McFarland, →ISBN, page 231:",
          "text": "Hoovervilles dotted the American landscape, men slept under newspapers or \"Hoover blankets,\" and kept the money they did't have in turned-out pockets […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Susan Dunn, Roosevelt's Purge, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 42:",
          "text": "... country—who were out of work, penniless, embarrassed, immobilized in sheer desperation, standing slumped, hollow-eyed, in long breadlines, begging or selling apples, sleeping under frayed overcoats or under Hoover blankets on streets ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Susan Dunn, 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm, Yale University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[Even witnessing people] hollow-eyed, in breadlines that stretched block after block, covering themselves at night with newspapers they called “Hoover blankets,” the president was stunningly unwilling to reach out to desperate Americans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Walter F. LaFeber, Richard Polenberg, Nancy Woloch, The American Century, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "People who spent the night on park benches covered by newspapers said they were sleeping under “Hoover blankets.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ed Ifkovic, Mood Indigo, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"Or living under a Hoover blanket in Central Park. A whole lot of folks there at night. Cold. Scary.\" \"A Hoover blanket?\" I was confused. He laughed. \"Cardboard.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Old newspaper or cardboard, used by a homeless person to cover themselves for warmth."
      ],
      "id": "en-Hoover_blanket-en-noun-AuGdIZS9",
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          "cardboard",
          "cardboard"
        ],
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          "homeless",
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        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "especially during the Depression",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dated, especially during the Depression) Old newspaper or cardboard, used by a homeless person to cover themselves for warmth."
      ],
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        "dated"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Herbert Hoover"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hoover blanket"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Herbert Hoover, US president at the start of the Great Depression, + blanket.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Hoover blankets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Hoover blanket (plural Hoover blankets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
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        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Joseph Robert Conlin, A survey of American history since 1865, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The shantytowns where homeless thousands dwelled were called Hoovervilles; newspapers used as blankets by men who were forced to sleep on park benches were Hoover blankets; a pocket turned inside out was a Hoover flag […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Rosemarie Ostler, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:",
          "text": "The newly unemployed stood in breadlines and slept on park benches under Hoover blankets made of newspaper.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Preserver of Spirit and Hope, Nova Science Pub Incorporated",
          "text": "Poverty became a way of life for 40 million Americans as laid off workers roamed the streets sleeping under Hoover 'blankets' - old newspapers. By 1933 the number of unemployed would mount to between 13 and 15 million […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, L.M. Sutter, Arlie Latham: A Baseball Biography of the Freshest Man on Earth, McFarland, →ISBN, page 231:",
          "text": "Hoovervilles dotted the American landscape, men slept under newspapers or \"Hoover blankets,\" and kept the money they did't have in turned-out pockets […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Susan Dunn, Roosevelt's Purge, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 42:",
          "text": "... country—who were out of work, penniless, embarrassed, immobilized in sheer desperation, standing slumped, hollow-eyed, in long breadlines, begging or selling apples, sleeping under frayed overcoats or under Hoover blankets on streets ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Susan Dunn, 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm, Yale University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[Even witnessing people] hollow-eyed, in breadlines that stretched block after block, covering themselves at night with newspapers they called “Hoover blankets,” the president was stunningly unwilling to reach out to desperate Americans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Walter F. LaFeber, Richard Polenberg, Nancy Woloch, The American Century, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "People who spent the night on park benches covered by newspapers said they were sleeping under “Hoover blankets.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ed Ifkovic, Mood Indigo, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"Or living under a Hoover blanket in Central Park. A whole lot of folks there at night. Cold. Scary.\" \"A Hoover blanket?\" I was confused. He laughed. \"Cardboard.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Old newspaper or cardboard, used by a homeless person to cover themselves for warmth."
      ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "especially during the Depression",
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        "(US, dated, especially during the Depression) Old newspaper or cardboard, used by a homeless person to cover themselves for warmth."
      ],
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        "dated"
      ],
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  "word": "Hoover blanket"
}