What's another name for a vacuum depends on context and region, as vacuum cleaner has many colloquial and technical synonyms. Common alternative names include vacuum cleaner, vacuum, hoover, sweeper, carpet sweeper, and vac. In UK, hoover is often used generically like Hoover, though Hoover is a brand name, similar to Kleenex for tissues, people say hoovering meaning vacuuming. In US, some call it vac or vacuum sweeper. Technical terms include suction cleaner, electric broom for stick models, and dust extractor. For specific types, names include upright, canister vac, stick vac, handheld vac, Dustbuster which is brand for handheld, Shop-Vac for wet-dry, and robot vac or robovac for autonomous. In industrial settings, it may be called dust collector or central vac system. In British English, vacuum cleaner is standard, but colloquially hoover is most common alternative, as in give it a hoover. So another name for vacuum is hoover, vac, sweeper, or suction cleaner depending on type and local usage, but all refer to device that uses suction to clean.
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