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shop-vac

shop-vac is the alternative form of shopvac.

Meaning of shopvac

Noun

shopvac (plural shopvacs)

  1. A heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.
  2. A wet-dry vacuum cleaner that can vacuum up wet material, liquids, and conventional dry mass, dust, dirt, sand, etc. and may be used as a makeshift pump in emergencies.

Forms of shop-vac

pluralshop-vacs

Questions about shop-vac

What is shop-vac the alternative form of?
Shop-vac is the alternative form of shopvac.

Words near shop-vac in the dictionary

  1. shop-lift
  2. shop-lifted
  3. shop-lifting
  4. shop-lifts
  5. shop-soiled
  6. shop-vac
  7. shop-walker
  8. shop-walkers
  9. shop-worn
  10. shopability
  11. shopaholic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shop-vac (page history and authors); shopvac (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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