Usually means: Vacuum or aggressively acquire something.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hoover: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hoover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hoover: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Hoover, hoover: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hoover, hoover: Wordnik
  6. Hoover, hoover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Hoover, hoover: Wiktionary
  8. Hoover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hoover: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hoover, hoover: Dictionary.com
  11. Hoover: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. hoover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Hoover (band), Hoover (disambiguation), Hoover (film), Hoover (seal), Hoover (song), Hoover (vacuum cleaner), Hoover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hoover: Rhymezone
  15. hoover: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hoover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Hoover, Hoover: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. hoover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hoover: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hoover: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoover, hoover: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the hoover: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hoovering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An American surname from German (shared by several famous people including J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Jefferson County and Shelby County, Alabama, incorporated in 1967 and named after William H. Hoover.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Adams Township, Cass County, Indiana, named after founder Riley Hoover.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, named after merchant James Hoover.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Garvin County, Oklahoma, named after physician Daniel H. Hoover.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Butte County, South Dakota, named after cattleman John Hoover.
noun:  A vacuum cleaner of the Hoover brand, or irrespective of brand (alternative form of hoover).
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
verb:  (ambitransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
verb:  (intransitive, British, Ireland) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
verb:  (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
verb:  Alternative letter-case form of hoover. [(ambitransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.]

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