hosepipe
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hosepipe (plural hosepipes)
- (UK, South Africa, Southern US) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.
- 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 7:
- In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban. But he had been too busy to haul full buckets the garden's length.
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hose
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hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)