Dictionary definition · Hoover
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
verb
- clean with a vacuum cleaner"vacuum the carpets"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).