hoover
see also: Hoover
Pronunciation Noun
Hoover
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Hoover
Pronunciation Noun
hoover (plural hoovers)
- (chiefly, Britain) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
hoover (hoovers, present participle hoovering; past and past participle hoovered)
- (transitive, Britain) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
- I need to hoover this room.
- 2006, Stella Rimington, Secret Asset, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-180024-6; republished New York, N.Y.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-7982-7, page 210:
- In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed.
- (intransitive, British) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
- My husband is upstairs, hoovering.
- (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
- (transitive sense) to vacuum
Hoover
Pronunciation Proper noun
- Surname (shared by several famous people including J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).
hoover (plural hoovers)
- A vacuum cleaner of the Hoover brand, or irrespective of brand (Alternative form of hoover).
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