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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
Hoover .
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Examples
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But he insisted that the dining rooms were being "Hoovered" as a matter of urgency, since:
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But he insisted that the dining rooms were being "Hoovered" as a matter of urgency, since:
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Like the S & L crisis of the first Bush, his son was also "Hoovered".
unknown title 2009
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Like the S & L crisis of the first Bush, his son was also "Hoovered".
unknown title 2009
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Photos: Couture Sans Color Giambattista Valli The euro arrived, France turned right, the Middle East Hoovered up haute couture, the good times rolled and Sarkozy commanded the political scene.
Welcome to the Show Michael Roberts 2012
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Hoovered up from lonemagpie who got it from someplace else ...
My God, It's Full Of Tweets! lonemagpie 2009
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You weren't anyone if you hadn't Hoovered a line off the coffee table in the back room, the one with the black lights, the disco ball, the velvet couches and, of course, the kick-ass sound system.
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The last company I worked for, MediSense, was Hoovered vacuumed up.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Unlike the production by Daniel Kramer, who neatly updated the action when he directed it a couple of years after the invasion of Iraq, Diane Paulus's Broadway production takes Gerome Ragni and James Rado's tale back to its henna'd roots, with the burning of draft cards, marching against the Vietnam war – "Lay, don't slay" – and domestic protest against parents who wore suits, sleeked their hair down, and Hoovered.
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I think you're wrong -- her "high ratings" from this or that left-leaning group mean nothing in terms of priorities or capacity to lead on issues, certainly not in comparison to the corporate money she's Hoovered up or the proven terrible judgment on issues of war and piece -- but I respect your sincerity and opinion.
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