Definizione monolingua

hoover

hoover (third-person singular simple present hoovers, present participle hoovering, simple past and past participle hoovered)

1. (transitive, UK) To clean (a room, etc) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

   I need to hoover this room.

   • 2008, Stella Rimington, Secret Asset, page 210:

     In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed.

2. (intransitive, UK) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

   My husband is upstairs, hoovering.

3. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.
   • 1998 Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods, Anchor Books, p. 8

     ...organisms called hantaviruses, which swarm in the micro-haze above the feces of mice and rats and are hoovered into the human respiratory system by anyone unlucky enough to stick a breathing orifice near them...

hoover (plural hoovers)

1. A generic term for a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

Definizione dizionario hoover

	aspirapolvere
	Electronic device that cleans dirt on a surface through suction.

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Altri significati:

(intransitive, UK) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

A generic term for a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

(transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

(transitive, UK) To clean (a room, etc) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.