Hoover

Quick meaning: Hoover is a noun meaning (ambitransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of the brand.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of the brand.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, British, Ireland) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
2. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
3. (chiefly UK, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Example Sentences

I need to hoover this room.

In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed.

In honour of my visit, he'd gotten rid of 'most' of the cobwebs, and washed and hoovered the walls next to the bed. Hoovered the walls? What sort of creatures were living in the gaps in the stone that would need to be hoovered out?

And the brooms lined up behind the buckets, and the dusters, dustpans, cloths and brushes, feather dusters and sweepers all lined up bravely to do battle with the thousand upright Hoovers. The Hoovers charged, engines roaring and bags fully inflated.

Word Forms

• hoovers
• hoovering
• hoovered

Synonyms for hoover

Depending on context, synonyms include vacuum, vacuum-clean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vacuum, vacuum-clean, nose, suction, suck, suck-up.

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