单词	Hoover
释义	Hoover /ˈhuːvə / British noun trademark A vacuum cleaner, properly one made by the Hoover company.With their famous prancing horse insignia and red livery, Ferraris are racing cars in the same way that Hoovers are vacuum cleaners or Rizlas are cigarette papers.... There's a plastic railway buffet display unit for sandwiches on the worktop, genuine adverts, circa 1962, for Hoovers on the walls, and a Bakelite radio on the windowsill. The magazine, aimed at women with advice on lifestyle issues and consumer products ranging from Hoovers to holidays, has existed in the UK since 1922. verb 1 (hoover) [with object] Clean (something) with a vacuum cleaner: he was hoovering the stairs... Animals get the star treatment - cows are hoovered clean while attentive stable hands polish every inch of the horses' hooves. Marie is the mother of the flat, she's really clean and leaves notes around: ‘Boys, hoover the floor!’ Someone else hoovers the carpet before you think it needs doing. 1.1 (hoover something up) Suck something up with or as if with a vacuum cleaner: hoover up all the dust... As well as sustaining many sea birds, they are hoovered up by the ton for the animal feed industry and over-fishing is probably involved. Well, you hoover them up with a E-Z Catch Harvester! The pages may be smaller but there appears to be no reduction in words: the broader columns seem to hoover them up. 1.2 (hoover something up) informal Consume something quickly and eagerly: he hoovered up three slices of cake... Kilos of cocaine were hoovered up by the spectacularly famous and indulgent in the 1970s when, as Bob puts it, ‘lines were offered around like cups of coffee.’ I took in a big batch of chocolate chip cookies for the office, and they were hoovered up with great excitement - then later, I got a huge and beautiful bunch of flowers, and gift vouchers. No doubt the Waratahs will be inspired by a 45,000 capacity crowd at the Sydney Football Stadium - tickets were hoovered up when they went on sale last week. Origin 1920s: named after W. H. Hoover (see Hoover, William).
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