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noun
A heavy-duty industrial vacuum cleaner designed to handle debris from a worksite or mechanical shop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A wet-dry vacuum cleaner that can vacuum up wet material, liquids, and conventional dry mass, dust, dirt, sand, etc. and may be used as a makeshift pump in emergencies.
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History
Genericization of the trademark Shop-Vac, from shop + vac, from workshop and vacuum cleaner.
Across languages
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