Hoover Hog Definition
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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Origin of Hoover Hog
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Herbert Hoover + hog , because impoverished people were reducing 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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