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dust bowl

Definition of dust bowl

noun

  • an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
  • (the Dust Bowl) an area of Oklahoma and other prairie states of the US affected by severe soil erosion in the early 1930s.

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