Hoover
Depression-era president
Hoover is an American vacuum cleaner brand whose name became synonymous with vacuuming in British English.
As a surname, it's associated with J.
Edgar Hoover, longtime FBI director, and Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president.
The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River is a major hydroelectric landmark. (Lowercase hoover is the British verb meaning to vacuum.)
Male given name
- directorOne who leads
- bureauOffice or furniture chest
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
federal · law enforcement · intelligence · counterintelligence · files · Washington · agency · crime
Silver State out west
- Arizona48th state admitted
- Colorado RiverMajor southwestern American waterway
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
Lake Mead · concrete · turbine · power · landmark · engineering · canyon · generator
Male given name
- RepublicanGOP party member
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- electionOrganized public voting
- politicianElected government official
White House · inauguration · commerce · secretary · Stanford · Quaker · humanitarian · presidency
Edgar
Male given name
- directorOne who leads
- bureauOffice or furniture chest
- investigationFormal examination of facts
surveillance · federal · law enforcement · intelligence · counterintelligence · files · Washington · agency · crime · espionage
Nevada
Silver State out west
- Arizona48th state admitted
- Colorado RiverMajor southwestern American waterway
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
reservoir · Lake Mead · concrete · turbine · power · landmark · engineering · canyon · generator · spillway
Herbert
Male given name
- RepublicanGOP party member
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- electionOrganized public voting
politician · White House · inauguration · commerce · secretary · Stanford · Quaker · humanitarian · presidency
vacuum
Absence of matter
robotic · cordless · corded · bagless · cyclonic · motor · filter · nozzle · hose · attachments
- EponymsDarwinian, Alzheimer's disease, Freudian slip, cardigan, Parkinson's disease
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- suction devicesvacuum, vacuum cleaner, suction cup, vacuum pump, suction pump
- AlabamaBirmingham, Alabama, Montgomery, Huntsville, Mobile
- Home BrandsIKEA, Crate and Barrel, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Bed Bath Beyond
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
HooverFranklin D. Roosevelt
FDR · Barack Obama · New Deal · Lyndon B. Johnson · Keynesian
HooverFranklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln · George Washington · JFK · Ronald Reagan · Dwight Eisenhower
HooverACLU
Advocacy group for constitutional protections
Martin Luther King Jr. · Thurgood Marshall · whistleblower · Edward Snowden · Earl Warren
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Hoover DamConcrete arch-gravity structure on Colorado
- Herbert Hoover
- hoovering upConsuming rapidly and completely
- hoover upConsume rapidly, completely
- hoovered upCleaned or consumed greedily