Hoover

n 1: 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: {Hoover}, {Herbert Hoover}, {Herbert

Clark Hoover}]

2: (trademark) a kind of vacuum cleaner [syn: {Hoover}]

v : clean with a vacuum cleaner [syn: {vacuum}, {vacuum-clean}]