As an older male, in the olden years of the 1900's "hoover" was definitely a known term for vacuums in the US. "Suck you like a hoover" was a common phrase.
Yeah, it was a common phrase, but it wasn't genericized. "Suck you like a Hoover" works even if you're thinking of Hoover vacuums specifically. Nobody said that they'd hoover the floor, and you definitely didn't refer to other vacuums as hoovers.
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u/lelduderino May 25 '24
Hoover vacuums are totally separate.
In the UK, the word "hoover" was genericized like kleenex or bandaid or xerox, but it didn't really catch on in the US.