Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hoover

Hoover , noun

[a trademark.]

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

hoover , transitive verb

to clean with a vacuum cleaner. [slang]

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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