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# hoover

«hoover» in Mova's school dictionary: **To clean a floor or carpet with a vacuum cleaner** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hoover, hoovers, hoovered, hoovering — UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ); noun (a Hoover, Hoovers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, informal) To clean a floor or carpet with a vacuum cleaner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#m1)

2) (UK) A vacuum cleaner, from the brand name Hoover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#m2)

3) (informal) To eat or take in something very fast, as in «He hoovered up his dinner». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life at home: «Can you hoover your room?» It is a chore word. In Britain and Ireland people use «hoover» for any vacuum cleaner, whatever the brand. Phrase: hoover up — to suck up or to eat quickly.

### examples

- Please hoover the living room before Nan comes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x1)
- I hoovered under my bed and found my missing sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x2)
- The hoover is in the cupboard under the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x3)
- The dog hoovered up the crumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x4)
- He hoovered up three slices of pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x5)
- Dad was hoovering the stairs when the doorbell rang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x6)
- Our new hoover is very loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: hoovered. As a brand the noun takes a capital (Hoover), but as an everyday word many write it small. In the USA people say «vacuum» instead. Same meaning: vacuum, vacuum cleaner.

### In the corpora

- [Mum plays along: «Tell Rab tae hoover, then.» Imaginary brothers and friends are common and healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/11/)
- [She helps with the hoovering, and tells her teacher when Nana seems poorly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hoover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.