Source : WordNet®

Hoover
     n 1: United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners
          (1849-1932) [syn: {William Hoover}, {William Henry
          Hoover}]
     2: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48
        years (1895-1972) [syn: {J. Edgar Hoover}, {John Edgar
        Hoover}]
     3: 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock
        market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was
        defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
        [syn: {Herbert Hoover}, {Herbert Clark Hoover}, {President
        Hoover}]
     4: a kind of vacuum cleaner
     v : clean with a vacuum cleaner; "vacuum the carpets" [syn: {vacuum},
          {vacuum-clean}]