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Fire hose

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.

    "Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided."

  2. 2
    a large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire wordnet
  3. 3
    Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information). idiomatic

    "She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge."

  4. 4
    A feed of all updates to a website.

    "Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)"

  5. 5
    A human penis. colloquial, idiomatic
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  1. 6
    An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.

Etymology

From fire + hose.

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