Hoover hog
Meanings
noun
- An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.
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Etymology
From Hoover (“US President Herbert Hoover”) + hog, because impoverished people were reduced to (and Hoover himself may have suggested) eating such animals during the Great Depression, which Hoover presided over the start of.
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