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Noun
S:
(n)
Hoover
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William Hoover
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William Henry Hoover
(United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932))
instance
derivationally related form
S:
(n)
Hoover
,
J. Edgar Hoover
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John Edgar Hoover
(United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972))
instance
S:
(n)
Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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President Hoover
(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))
S:
(n)
Hoover
(a kind of vacuum cleaner)
Verb
S:
(v)
vacuum
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vacuum-clean
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hoover
(clean with a vacuum cleaner)
"vacuum the carpets"