hoover Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
   William Hoover; William Henry Hoover.
   
2. noun United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
   John Edgar Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover.
   
3. noun 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)
   Herbert Hoover; Herbert Clark Hoover; President Hoover.
   
4. noun a kind of vacuum cleaner
   
5. verb clean with a vacuum cleaner
   vacuum-clean; vacuum.
   
   • vacuum the carpets

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