hoover

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: Hoo=ver

CIDE DICTIONARY

hoover, n. [a trademark.].

 a kind of vacuum cleaner.  [WordNet 1.5]

hoover, v. t. 

 to clean with a vacuum cleaner.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hoover, n. & v.
--n. propr. a vacuum cleaner (properly one made by the Hoover company).
--v. (hoover)
1 tr. (also absol.) clean (a carpet etc.) with a vacuum cleaner.
2 (foll. by up) a tr. suck up with or as with a vacuum cleaner (hoovered up the crumbs). b absol. clean a room etc. with a vacuum cleaner (decided to hoover up before they arrived).

Etymology

W. H. Hoover, Amer. manufacturer d. 1932