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hoover

nounverb /huvər/ 2 syllables 6 letters Scrabble 12 WWF 12

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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)

herbert clark hoover herbert hoover president hoover

noun

United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

j. edgar hoover john edgar hoover

noun

United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

william henry hoover william hoover

verb

clean with a vacuum cleaner

vacuum vacuum-clean

noun

a kind of vacuum cleaner

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