Reference meaning
Hoover
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United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
Related source terms
william hooverwilliam henry hoover
Other meanings
2. noun
United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)
3. 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)
4. noun
a kind of vacuum cleaner
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