hoover

Meanings

Noun

• A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Verb

• To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
• To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
• To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

Related

Similar words

• to vacuum

Origin

• From Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by and his son . The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the , originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.