hose

hose /h'oʊz/ (hoses hosing hosed)
1 [N-COUNT]
A hose is a long, flexible pipe made of rubber or plastic. Water is directed through a hose in order to do things such as put out fires, clean cars, or water gardens.
You've left the garden hose on...
2 [N-COUNT]
A hose is a pipe made of rubber or plastic, along which a liquid or gas flows, for example from one part of an engine to another.
Water in the engine compartment is sucked away by a hose.
3 [VERB] V n
If you hose something, you wash or water it using a hose.
We wash our cars and hose our gardens without even thinking of the water that uses.hose down
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
When you hose something or someone down, you clean them using a hose.
In one driveway a chauffeur wearing rubber boots was hosing down a limousine...
When the children come in covered in sand you can just hose them down.

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