Dust Bowl

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Dust′ Bowl′, 

1. the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
2. (l.c.) any similar dry region elsewhere.
• 1935–40, American.

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Dust Bowl noun

1. the Dust Bowl ⇒ the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s

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dust bowl noun

1. a semiarid area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion and dust storms occur