Lexic.us

Definition of Hoover

1. Verb. Clean with a vacuum cleaner. "Vacuum the carpets"

2. Noun. United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932).

3. Noun. United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972).

4. 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).

5. Noun. A kind of vacuum cleaner.

Definition of Hoover

1. Proper noun. A brand of vacuum cleaner. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname A=An American from=German dot=) (shared by several famous people including w:J Edgar Hoover J Edgar Hoover and w:Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover). ¹

3. Noun. A generic term for a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive British) To clean (a room, etc) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive British) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hoover

1. to clean with a vacuum cleaner [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Hoover

1. Charles F., U.S. Physician, 1865-1927. See: Hoover's signs. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoover

Hooke's law Hooker's green Hooker's onion Hooker's orchid Hooker-Forbes test Hookerian Hookins Hooman Hoop Hooray Henries

Hooray Henry Hoosier Hoosier State Hoosiers Hooson Hoover (current term) Hoover's sign Hoover Dam Hoovercrat Hoovercrats

Hoovered Hoovering Hoovers Hooverville Hoovervilles Hope Hopedale Hopeh Hopei Hopf algebra

Literary usage of Hoover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Her testimony is that Benjamin E. Hoover, in express language, ... That Hoover, on various other occasions, denied bo his relatives and friends that he was ..."

2. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"With the generous cooperation of the Hotel Savoy, Hoover immediately ... But the story of Hoover and the "CRB" has been many times told,1 and I had no ..."

3. Presidents of the United States of America by Frank Freidel (1994)
"While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, ... One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, ..."

4. Pennsylvania Law Journal (1848)
"On the 20th of June succeeding, Hoover, the plaintiff, presented to the Register for ... I, Barbara Hoover, the wife of William Hoover, of the city of ..."

5. The Mirrors of Washington by Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Oscar Edward Cesare (1921)
"HERBERT Hoover ONE reads in the press daily of Hughes and Hoover, or Mellen and Hoover, or Davis and Hoover, or Wallace and Hoover. ..."

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