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- verb Present participle of
vacuum-clean .
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Examples
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Hoover, whose history dates back to 1907, is one of the country's most iconic brands; the phrase "hoover up" is commonly understood to mean vacuum-cleaning, and also to eat or drink rapidly.
Hoover, Dirt Devil Put on Auction Block Anupreeta Das 2011
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Watch as these curious cats ride around on a vacuum-cleaning robot and fall off one by one, all set to the perfect tune.
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kittens Riding On A Roomba! (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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Watch as these curious cats ride around on a vacuum-cleaning robot and fall off one by one, all set to the perfect tune.
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kittens Riding On A Roomba! (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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Watch as these curious cats ride around on a vacuum-cleaning robot and fall off one by one, all set to the perfect tune.
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kittens Riding On A Roomba! (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Watch as these curious cats ride around on a vacuum-cleaning robot and fall off one by one, all set to the perfect tune.
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kittens Riding On A Roomba! (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Watch as these curious cats ride around on a vacuum-cleaning robot and fall off one by one, all set to the perfect tune.
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kittens Riding On A Roomba! (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He found a manservant in a striped waistcoat who was vacuum-cleaning the large drawing room.
Maigret and the Killer Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1969
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The housecleaning-robot had come in, running its vacuum-cleaning hose around and brandishing its mops.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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Sweepers, with rotary brooms and rakes, crablike all-purpose handling robots, a couple of vacuum-cleaning robots, each with a flexible funnel-tipped proboscis and a bulging dust-sack.
The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934
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When he had carried out this intention and subjected his teeth to a process of vacuum-cleaning, he asked:
The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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