1.  hoover(n = noun.person) william henry hoover, william hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932);
is a kind of industrialist
Derived form verb hoover₁

2.  hoover(n = noun.person) j. edgar hoover, john edgar hoover - United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972);
is a kind of attorney, lawyer

3.  hoover(n = noun.person) herbert clark hoover, herbert hoover, president 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);
is a kind of chief executive, president, president of the united states, united states president

4.  hoover(n = noun.artifact) - a kind of vacuum cleaner;
is a kind of vacuum, vacuum cleaner
Derived form verb hoover₁

   hoover(v = verb.contact) vacuum, vacuum-clean - clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"
is one way to clean, make clean
Derived forms noun hoover₄, noun hoover₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

   a kind of vacuum cleaner. [WordNet 1.5]

   to clean with a vacuum cleaner. [WordNet 1.5]

hoover, n. & v.
--n. propr. a vacuum cleaner (properly one made by the Hoover company).
--v. (hoover)
1 tr. (also absol.) clean (a carpet etc.) with a vacuum cleaner.
2 (foll. by up) a tr. suck up with or as with a vacuum cleaner (hoovered up the crumbs). b absol. clean a room etc. with a vacuum cleaner (decided to hoover up before they arrived).

Etymology:
W. H. Hoover, Amer. manufacturer d. 1932

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