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vacuum-cleaner

vacuum-cleaner is the alternative form of vacuum cleaner.

Meaning of vacuum cleaner

Noun

vacuum cleaner (plural vacuum cleaners)

  1. A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
    Synonyms:
    hoover, vacuum, sweeper
  2. (euphemistic, slang) The buttocks.
    • And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up your vacuum cleaner and turn it on high!2000, Irving Berlin, White Christmas

Forms of vacuum-cleaner

pluralvacuum-cleaners

Questions about vacuum-cleaner

What is vacuum-cleaner the alternative form of?
Vacuum-cleaner is the alternative form of vacuum cleaner.

Words near vacuum-cleaner in the dictionary

  1. vacuum valves
  2. vacuum workout
  3. vacuum workouts
  4. vacuum-clean
  5. vacuum-cleaned
  6. vacuum-cleaner
  7. vacuum-cleaners
  8. vacuum-cleaning
  9. vacuum-cleans
  10. vacuum-pack
  11. vacuum-packed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuum-cleaner (page history and authors); vacuum cleaner (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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