| hoover | (n) United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932), Syn. William Hoover, William Henry Hoover |
| hoover | (n) United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972), Syn. J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover |
| hoover | (n) 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. Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover, Herbert Hoover |
| hoover | (n) a kind of vacuum cleaner |
| hoover dam | (n) a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada |
| vacuum | (v) clean with a vacuum cleaner, Syn. vacuum-clean, hoover, Example: vacuum the carpets |