What is "hoover"

hoover \hoover\ v. t. to clean with a vacuum cleaner. [slang]

Syn: vacuum, vacuum-clean.

proprietary name for a make of vacuum cleaner (patented 1927); sometimes used generally for "vacuum cleaner." As a verb, meaning "to vacuum," from 1926, in the company’s advertising.

n. (lb en chiefly UK) A vacuum cleaner (qualifier: irrespective of brand). vb. 1 (context transitive British English) To clean (a room, etc) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand. 2 (context intransitive British English) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand. 3 (context transitive English) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

Hoover is a surname, an Anglicized form of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small farmer.

Hoover may refer to:

Hoover was an American post-hardcore/ emo band from Washington, D.C.. Formed in 1992, Hoover went on to produce some of the more intense music to appear on the Dischord Records label in the 1990s. Unusually, three of the four members shared vocal duties equally.

Hoover split up in 1994, and have reformed twice: once in 1997 to record a mini-album of 'odds and ends', and again in 2004 to tour Europe and also performed some shows back in their homeland. It is not clear whether the band will continue to be active.

Hoover (c. 1971 – July 25, 1985) was a harbour seal who was able to imitate basic human speech.

He was an orphan when he was found by George and Alice Swallow in Maine in 1971. George and Alice decided to take him home. At first the baby seal didn't want to eat, but soon he ate at the pace of a vacuum cleaner (Hoover being a genericized trademark for a vacuum cleaner after The Hoover Company's epononymous product), hence his name.

When Hoover outgrew the bathtub, he was transferred to the pond outside their house where he began to imitate people's voices. Again he was moved, this time to the New England Aquarium, where he told visitors to "Get outta here!" or "Well Hello Deah" in a thick New England accent.

Thanks to this, he became famous, and appeared in publications like Reader's Digest and The New Yorker and television programs like Good Morning America.

Hoover died on July 25, 1985, due to complications during his annual molt. His obituary was published in The Boston Globe.

Willis David Hoover was born in Jackson County, Missouri and raised in Lamoni, Iowa and Shenandoah, Iowa. After starting out as a coffee house folk singer as a teenager, Hoover moved to Nashville in the 1960s and became a songwriter. His songs were recorded by Tina Turner, Eddy Arnold and country music outlaws Tompall Glaser and Waylon Jennings. He won an ASCAP Award for music written for the motion picture, " ...tick...tick...tick..." After losing or forgetting his first and middle names, Hoover became a recording artist for Monument Records, Epic Records, and Elektra Records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His recordings for Elektra were released in 2003 by Kinky Friedman's Sphincter Records label.

After retiring from the music industry, Hoover became a writer. He had "Picks!" published in 1995 and "North Shore" in 2005.

"Hoover" is a song by Swedish rapper Yung Lean, released in 2016. A music video was originally released for the song in November 2015, and the song was released online digitally on January 20, 2016 in promotion for the upcoming Yung Lean album, Warlord.