fire hoses

Noun

fire hose (plural fire hoses)

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.1954 June, “Yonge Street Subway, Toronto”, in Railway Magazine, page 422
2. (idiomatic) Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
   • She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.
3. A feed of all updates to a website.
   • Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)2012, Rob Garner, Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 286
4. (colloquial, idiomatic) A human penis.

   Synonyms:

   anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad

5. An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.