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hoover 
verb
- to clean. Origin: the Hoover brand of vacuum cleaners.
You are not going out to play until you hoover that messy room of yours!
I have to hoover the bathroom before the party starts.
Submitted by Susan Baglien, Wauwatosa, WI, USA, Sep 23 1997.
- to eat very quickly. Origin: the same vacuum cleaners. Someone eating quickly could (in theory) be mistaken for a vacuum cleaner.
He hoovered the whole pizza!
Submitted by Annie Trimble, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mar 11 1998.
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