[
US
/ˈhuvɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈuːvɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈuːvɐ/ ]
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)
How To Use Hoover In A Sentence
- So Sanjay washes his own windows, hoovers his own floors and racks his brains.
- By the time they left at eight thirty, she'd scrubbed the kitchen floor, hoovered the carpet, and polished the TV screen - while he was watching it.
- Edgar Hoover from the rear of the Director’s house in northwest Washington and this is what people remembered, what I remembered when I first reheard the name Jesse Detwiler. Underworld
- I woke up to hear my parents gently bickering with one another, and my mother's frantic hoovering.
- Dear Joanna, your American friends will not know what 'hoovering' is. Auntie joanna writes
- Marie is the mother of the flat, she's really clean and leaves notes around: ‘Boys, hoover the floor!’
- After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
- Would Hoover circularise his description and offer a reward? The Man Who Lost Himself
- Part of his bail condition bans him from the Hoover Drive area.
- People think I'm mad, but I have been know to hoover my curtains.
