hoover

Related to hoover: Hoover Dam, J edgar hoover

hoover

slang To vacuum. An allusion to the Hoover brand of vacuums, though used generically. We'd better hoover the house before our guests arrive. Sorry, I was hoovering and didn't hear the phone ring.

hoover up

1. Literally, to use a vacuum cleaner on something; to suck up something using a vacuum cleaner. An allusion to the Hoover brand of vacuums, though used generically. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hoover" and "up." Primarily heard in UK. We'd better hoover up the house before our guests arrive. I need to hoover this glass up or someone might get hurt!
2. To eat or drink something with great speed and voracity. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hoover" and "up." Primarily heard in UK. I'm so hungry, I'm going to hoover up everything I can lay my hands on at the restaurant! I've never seen anyone hoover vegetables up the way you do.
3. To absorb or consume something with great enthusiasm, intensity, or eagerness. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hoover" and "up." Primarily heard in UK. The teacher was brilliant at finding ways to encourage her students to hoover their studies up. My son hoovers any new technological gadget up.
See also: hoover, up

J. Edgar

slang The police. (J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI in the early 20th century). Primarily heard in US. Our community gets nothing but harassment from J. Edgar in this city.
See also: Edgar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hoover

tv. to perform oral sex on the penis. (see also a hoovering.) She hoovered him twice and then left.

hoovering

1. n. an abortion. (From the suction used, referring to the vacuum cleaner.) She said she thought a hoovering would make things right.
2. n. an act of sucking up to someone. (see also suck up to someone.) More of your hoovering! You are a sycophantic pain in the butt!
See also: hoover

J. Edgar (Hoover)

(ˈdʒe ˈɛdgɚ (ˈhuvɚ))
n. the police; federal officers. (Underworld.) Max got out of town when he heard that the J. Edgars were on his tail.
See also: Edgar, hoover

J. Edgar

verb
See J. Edgar Hoover
See also: Edgar
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hoover up
  • hoovering
  • haf
  • end game
  • in a minor key
  • minor
  • straws in (one's) hair
  • feeler
  • have the/(one's) feelers out
  • hewers of wood and drawers of water
References in periodicals archive
Herbert Hoover: A Life provides a warning about the malign effects of slander and libel in the nation's political affairs.
Herbert Hoover: A Life
The next day, FDR explained to Hull and Hoover that he wanted a "survey" of Communist and Fascist activity in the country.
Comey Memos Follow Tradition Of J. Edgar Hoover Keeping Notes On Presidents
"Bertie," as the blacksmiths son was known, was born in 1874, in a 350-person Iowa outpost called West Branch, making Hoover the first president born west of the Mississippi.
WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE ..
Born in 1874 to a blacksmith and his wife in the Quaker community of West Branch, Iowa, Hoover was six when his father died and nine when his mother died.
Was Hoover Actually as Bad as They Said?
Currently, Hoover serves as chief executive officer of PARC, a Xerox company.
Xerox appoints Steve Hoover as new chief technology officer
Hoover and Associates is independent of Sigma Financial Corporation.
Randall Hoover Appears on Sunday Edition with Alisa Zee Discussing Blue Cross Blue Shield Legacy Rate Increase
Hoover will join the executive team at Cathay Industries and continue in his role as president of the Hoover Color newly formed division of Cathay Industries.
Cathay Industries acquires Hoover Color Corporation
The Hoover Wizard system was being demonstrated to visitors at the recent Grand Designs Live show at Birmingham's NEC, including the early warning function, for example letting you know if you have left the dishwasher or fridge door open.
Using your kitchen appliances from the comfort of your car
After the surgery, Hoover suffered from "paralysis, primarily on the left, including no quadriceps function, numbness, significantly increased pain," the lawsuit said.
VA Woes
Clements's The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928 explores the years immediately before and during Hoover's service in the cabinet for Presidents Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928
This work presents President Herbert Hoover's memoir, The Crusade Years, his self-described 'crusade against collectivism' in the wake of the New Deal.
The crusade years 1933-1955; Herbert Hoover's lost memoir of the New Deal era and its aftermath
At the southern terminus, Hoover owns and operates Perry Ranch Station where storage facilities receive crude oil from Plains' truck facilities, a producer-owned pipeline system and Hoover-owned gathering laterals.
Hoover starts up Pecos Crossing, construction on new natural gas project
The critics of laissez faire are right about one thing: Herbert Hoover deserves a good deal of blame for turning what most likely would have been a steep-but short--recession into a much deeper and eventually much longer Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover (not FDR) is the real father of the new deal
Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), recently graduated from George Washington University's law school and working for Palmer's Department of Justice.
J. Edgar who?