to hoover

Examples

• All

• I'm so happy with it and I hoovered all down here and I hoovered all around here and I swept all this floor.

• Liam's really domestic, he will Hoover, clean, do my washing.

• So we are going to basically clean up, Hoover up all the dust, wipe all the surfaces, and then we're going to sugar soap clean the whole room.

• I should be hoovering!

  Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

• After the party, I need to hoover the living room to pick up all the crumbs.

• Every Saturday, I hoover the carpets to keep the house tidy.

Synonyms

V

to vacuum

vsto hoover

48 1.7

Clean a floor or carpet with a machine that sucks up dirt

is the general term for cleaning floors and similar surfaces

H

to hoover up

vsto hoover

• UK

1 4.3

To clean a carpet or floor using a vacuum cleaner

describes the same cleaning action but not necessarily fast or thorough

V

to vacuum-clean

vsto hoover

2.1

To clean a carpet or floor with a vacuum cleaner

is focused more on floors and carpets rather than any object

Antonyms

M

to mess up

• Informal

52 3.0

To make something untidy, dirty, or not in the right place

Phrasal Verbs

H

to hoover up

• UK

1 4.3

To clean a carpet or floor using a vacuum cleaner

Compounds

H

Hoover Dam

4 3.7

A large concrete dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that makes electricity and forms Lake Mead

How Clean

to clean

∞ 1.0

to hoover

• UK

3 4.2

to sweep

227 1.0

to wipe

531 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology