hoover
Plural: hoovers
Noun
- United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
- United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
- 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)
- a kind of vacuum cleaner
- A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
Verb
- clean with a vacuum cleaner
- To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
- To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
- To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
Examples
- I need to hoover this room.
- I'd hoover, iron or dust, but I hated doing windows.
Origin / Etymology
Genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.
Synonyms
Herbert Clark Hoover, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, President Hoover, vacuum, vacuum-clean, William Henry Hoover, William Hoover, to vacuum
Scrabble Score: 12
hoover: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhoover: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hoover: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary