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Noun: Hoover Dam
  1. A concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, completed in 1936
    "Hoover Dam provides hydroelectric power to much of the Southwest"

Type of: dam, dike, dyke

Part of: Battle Born State, Nev., Nevada, NV, Sagebrush State, Silver State

Encyclopedia: Hoover Dam