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Meaning of hoover

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Hoover
      n 1: United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum
           cleaners (1849-1932) [syn: {Hoover}, {William Hoover},
           {William Henry Hoover}]
      2: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years
         (1895-1972) [syn: {Hoover}, {J. Edgar Hoover}, {John Edgar
         Hoover}]
      3: 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) [syn: {Hoover},
         {Herbert Hoover}, {Herbert Clark Hoover}, {President Hoover}]
      4: a kind of vacuum cleaner
      v 1: clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn:
           {vacuum}, {vacuum-clean}, {hoover}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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