Wordie: Hoover

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(n): someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

(n): United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

(n): a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

(n): 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)

(n): the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

(n): a kind of vacuum cleaner

(n): an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

(v): clean with a vacuum cleaner

(v): make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from

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8 months ago seanahan said:

Nobody does it like you, the way that you do, C_B, nobody, does it like you.

8 months ago chained_bear said:

And let's not forget about Hoovervilles.

10 months ago uselessness said:

Something I've been thinking about lately. One site I spend a lot of time on is Facebook. Recently they announced that their member database is becoming searchable, meaning my profile could appear on Google. Not in its entirety, granted, just a header and my picture. Still, it's opt-out if I don't want to be included in that (seems like it should be opt-in). And who knows what other privacy issues they will loosen up on in the future? The thought occurred to me that if, for whatever reason, I stopped using Facebook, my information might one day become very public of its own accord. Yikes!

10 months ago Jrome said: cleaning up the crumbs of our social networking lifestyles

"...how does this contribute to the growing problem of “digital litter” in which people are leaving crumbs of personal information all over the web, in a way that makes it very difficult to hoover up at a later date, if they so desire." -- http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=300

11 months ago seanahan said:

Nobody does it like you.

11 months ago reesetee said:

Or to consume food the way a vacuum cleaner cleans. ;-)

11 months ago slumry said:

verb: to clean with a vacuum cleaner

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