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vacuum cleaner

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A domestic vacuum cleaner.

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Etymology

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Fromvacuum +‎cleaner. By synchronic analysis,vacuum-clean (aback-formation) +‎-er.[1]

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Noun

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vacuumcleaner (pluralvacuum cleaners)

  1. Adevice that usessuction, and oftenagitation,in order toremovedirt and otherdebris fromcarpets andhardfloors.
    Synonyms:hoover,vacuum,sweeper
  2. (slang, euphemistic) Thebuttocks.
    • 2000, Irving Berlin,White Christmas:
      And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up yourvacuum cleaner and turn it on high!

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Translations

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machine for cleaning

References

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  1. ^Naděžda Stašková (2013) “English back-formation in the literature”, inEnglish Back-Formation: Recent Trends in Usage: A Comprehensive Study of English Back-Formation in the 20th and the Early21st Century[1], Plzeň:Západočeská univerzita v Plzni,→ISBN, page25:As soon as a verb of the type[to] vacuum-clean is formally derived by BF[back-formation], it becomes semantically primary; thus,vacuum cleaner means ‘appliance designed to vacuum-clean with’; therefore, viewed synchronically, it is derived from the verb[to] vacuum-clean.
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