Hoover - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈhuːvər|
Brit.  |ˈhuːvə|

noun

- United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932) (syn: hoover)
- United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) (syn: hoover)
- 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964) (syn: hoover)
- a kind of vacuum cleaner (syn: hoover)

verb

- clean with a vacuum cleaner (syn: hoover, vacuum, vacuum-clean)

Extra examples

Contrary to persistent myth, Hoover was an activist.

President Hoover's inauguration

Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide

Word forms

verb
singular: Hoover
plural: Hoovers
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