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Is hoover a Scrabble word?

Yes, hoover is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of hoover?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.Examples: ""What do you do about dogs that don't like Hoovers?" […] At the first opportunity place the Hoover in the area where your dog is lying calmly, and since it is normally the noise that sends it into those fits of anger, it should be unconcerned with a silent machine. Continue to place the Hoover in those areas that your pet is relaxing until it is familiar with the Hoover being in such close proximity. […] By continuing to distract your pet each time the Hoover is switched on but stationary, you should be able to move it a little closer without causing your pet any alarm."; "And the brooms lined up behind the buckets, and the dusters, dustpans, cloths and brushes, feather dusters and sweepers all lined up bravely to do battle with the thousand upright Hoovers. The Hoovers charged, engines roaring and bags fully inflated."; "Vacuuming the house is a very quick way of sprucing it up simply because you can use the hoover to push everything out of the way. Cleaning an average-size room is also the exercise equivalent of ten minutes on the Nordic Skier, while changing the hoover bag is the mental equivalent of doing a Rubik's cube in a dust storm."IrelandUK

verb (English)

1. (ambitransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.Examples: "I need to hoover this room."; "This time Robbie was dreaming about Mr Spatchley's ducks. They had all come alive and were flying around the office whilst Robbie desperately tried to hoover the floor. There were ducks everywhere, on the desk and mantelpiece and padding around on the floor, knocking things over and quacking indignantly."; "In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed."BritishIrelandambitransitive

2. (intransitive, British, Ireland) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.Examples: "I'd hoover, iron or dust, but I hated doing windows."; "[…] she was always in trouble for not hoovering behind the bed picked up what I could of it still there after he hoovered […]"; "A woman from a funding agency visited the station for a meeting early one morning, and when she arrived I was doing the hoovering. My colleague introduced us and we chatted for a bit. Then she asked me what my job was and I told her 'station manager'. She looked really puzzled, and asked 'so why are you doing the hoovering?' I answered, 'because the floor was dirty.'"BritishIrelandintransitive

3. (transitive) To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.Examples: "'You're probably thinking I'm a slob,' said Lister, finishing off a quintuple-thick milkshake and hoovering around the base with the straw."; "Then there is the little-known family of organisms called hantaviruses, which swarm in the micro-haze above the feces of mice and rats and are hoovered into the human respiratory system by anyone unlucky enough to stick a breathing orifice near them—by lying down, say, on a sleeping platform over which infected mice have recently scampered."; "The early models of famine early warning systems adopted the approach of gathering all possible (or measurable) indicators, adding them up and deducing vulnerability. This was termed the hoovering approach—vulnerability was the weight of the bag after vacuuming up everything in sight (hoovering is the British word for vacuuming)."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "hoover"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "hoover"?

Scrabble
12 points
H4
O1
O1
V4
E1
R1
Words With Friends
12 points
H3
O1
O1
V4
E1
R1

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