dustbowl

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.

   • The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice.
   • Taking up space in the dustbowl of his bedroom was a Marshall JCM 800 bass amplifier.
2. 2

   The central region of the United States during the 1930s.

   • It was not until the end of the decade that Hollywood could take a more detached look at the social consequences of the Depression in John Ford's 1940 film of John Steinbeck's dustbowl novel The Grapes of Wrath.
   • It's a long way from earlier circuits, such as Woody Guthrie's dustbowl odyssey and Pete Seeger's union halls.
3. 3

   The 1930s period.

The neighborhood