hoover

Speech parts

1. hoover - Noun

2. hoover - Verb

3. Hoover - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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)

a kind of vacuum cleaner

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

clean with a vacuum cleaner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

vacuum Herbert Hoover vacuum-clean Herbert Clark Hoover wolf gorge bolt cram guzzle destroy eat absorb consume appreciate swallow

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Antonyms

create receive build FAST store preserve

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Hypernyms

vacuum clean vacuum cleaner make clean

Phrases with the word

william henry hoover william hoover Hoover's bentgrass the hoover years

Examples

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. Augusten Burroughs

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did. Babe Ruth

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. Germaine Greer

However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy. John Kenneth Galbraith

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Gale Norton

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. Lou Henry Hoover

Close letter words and terms

hoove hooved hooven Hoover blanket Hoover Dam Hoover flag