Hoover - Definition
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]