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Noun hoover has 4 senses
- Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
--1 is a kind of industrialist
- Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover - United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
--2 is a kind of lawyer, attorney
- Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover - 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
--3 is a kind of President of the United States, United States President, President, Chief Executive
- Hoover - a kind of vacuum cleaner
--4 is a kind of vacuum, vacuum cleaner
Verb hoover has 1 sense
- vacuum, vacuum-clean, hoover - clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"
--1 is one way to clean, make clean
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