hoover

Noun

• a kind of vacuum cleaner

• 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)

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

• United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

Verb

• clean with a vacuum cleaner
  • vacuum the carpets
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Hoover , Herbert Hoover , Herbert Clark Hoover , President Hoover , J. Edgar Hoover , John Edgar Hoover , William Hoover , William Henry Hoover , vacuum , vacuum-clean