Hoover in a sentence as a noun

Good examples of trade marks that have fallen into common usage are elevator, xerox and hoover.

Imagine j. edgar hoover or richard nixon able to use all that NSA data for illegitimate purposes.

Hoover in a sentence as a verb

Mozilla is effectively the only player in the browser space that I still feel I can trust not to have commercial motives to hoover up data about me.

Hoover definitions

noun

United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

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noun

United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

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noun

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)

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noun

a kind of vacuum cleaner

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verb

clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets"

See also: vacuum vacuum-clean