Hooverize

== English == === Alternative forms === Hooverise, hooverize, hooverise === Etymology === From Hoover +‎ -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food. Apparently coined in the poem reproduced below. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhuvɚaɪz/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhuːvə(ɹ)aɪz/ === Verb === Hooverize (third-person singular simple present Hooverizes, present participle Hooverizing, simple past and past participle Hooverized) (dated, transitive, intransitive) To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food. [from 1917]