Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Ireland, UK)A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

    a kind of vacuum cleaner

Examples

27 sentences

  1. Tom asked me to hoover the room.

    Том попросив мене пропилососити кімнату. — deniko

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  2. Tom bought a new hoover.

    Том купив новий пилосос. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  3. Have you hoovered under the beds?

    deHast du unter den Betten gestaubsaugt? — maaster

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  4. Which hoover is the best, then?

    deWelcher ist denn der beste Staubsauger? — brauchinet

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  5. They should have bought a new hoover.

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Origin

A genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, whi

A genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.

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Forms

plural: hoovers
Singularhoover
Pluralhoovers

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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