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shopvac

shopvac noun: a heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.

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 shopvac

pluralshopvacs
alternative formshop-vac
alternative formshop vac
alternative formshop vacuum

Origin of shopvac

Genericization of the trademark Shop-Vac, from shop + vac, from workshop and vacuum cleaner.

Questions about shopvac

What does shopvac mean?
Shopvac means a heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.
What part of speech is shopvac?
Shopvac is a noun.
What is the plural of shopvac?
The plural of shopvac is shopvacs.

Words near shopvac in the dictionary

  1. shopsteading
  2. shopsteads
  3. shopsteal
  4. shoptalk
  5. shoptalks
  6. shopvac
  7. shopvacs
  8. shopwalker
  9. shopwalkers
  10. shopward
  11. shopwards

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