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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 stewards
  2. shop talk
  3. shop time
  4. shop towel
  5. shop towels
  6. shop vac
  7. shop vacs
  8. shop window
  9. shop windows
  10. shop-bell
  11. shop-bells

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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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