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Verb: hoover up
  1. [Brit, informal] Eat a large amount of food quickly
    - garbage down [informal], gobble up [informal], shovel in [informal], bolt down [informal], snarf [informal]
     
  2. Clean up (something with a vacuum cleaner
    "hoover up the crumbs"

Derived forms: hoovering up, hoovers up, hoovered up

Type of: eat

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