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1. Clean with a vacuum cleaner
   "hoover the carpets";
   - vacuum, vacuum-clean

1. 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)
   - Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover
    
2. United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
   - William Hoover, William Henry Hoover
    
3. A kind of vacuum cleaner
    
4. United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
   - J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover

Derived forms: hoovers, Hoovers, hoovering, hoovered

Type of: attorney, Chief Executive, clean, industrialist, lawyer, make clean, POTUS [US, informal], President, President of the United States, United States President, vac [informal], vacuum, vacuum cleaner

Encyclopedia: Hoover, Oklahoma