I. Hoo·ver /ˈhuːvə $ -ər/ noun [countable] trademark British English
a vacuum cleaner

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II. Hoover, Herbert
(1874–1964) a US politician in the Republican Party who was the President of the US from 1929 to 1933, during the first years of the Great Depression when many US citizens did not have jobs. His government was often criticized because it did not do enough to help these people.

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III. Hoover, J. Ed‧gar /dʒeɪ ˈedɡəʳ/
(1895–1972) the most important director of the FBI, from 1924 until his death. Hoover is remembered as someone with very strong anti-Communist views, and he was criticized for having too much power and for collecting information about people who were not criminals or enemies of the country.

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hoover verb [intransitive and transitive] British English
to clean a floor, carpet etc using a vacuum cleaner (=a machine that sucks up dirt) Synonym : vacuum

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