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HOOVER

Definition:

1. [noun] United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
   Synonyms: Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoover
   
   
2. [noun] United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
   Synonyms: Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover
   
   
3. [noun] 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
   Synonyms: Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoover
   
   
4. [noun] a kind of vacuum cleaner
   Synonyms: Hoover
   
   
5. [verb] clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"
   Synonyms: vacuum, vacuum-clean
   
   

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