Cleaver
Fictional TV surname
Cleaver is a surname, most familiar in American culture from the fictional Cleaver family in the 1950s television series *Leave It to Beaver*, whose wholesome image became shorthand for idealized suburban domesticity. (Lowercase cleaver is a butcher's knife.)
Ward
Personal or family name
Theodore · sitcom · suburban · wholesome · 1950s · television · family · domestic · American
political radicalism
CleaverGeorge Wallace
Alabama segregationist politician
J. Edgar Hoover · Barry Goldwater · Richard Nixon · Ronald Reagan · Booker T. Washington
- meat cleaverHeavy cutting blade
- Chinese cleaverWide rectangular Asian blade
- builder's cleavageExposed rear cleft
- bond cleavageBreaking molecular connections
- the CleaversClassic sitcom clan