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hosepipe

hosepipe noun: a flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.

Noun

hosepipe (plural hosepipes)

  1. (South Africa, Southern US, UK) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.
    • 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.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 7
    • Specifically, [Roger] Bailey [the chief technical officer of the Thames Tideway Tunnel] is hoping for “storm test three”, a downpour so heavy that it fills the 16 mile-long tunnel to 90 per cent of its capacity. That’s because London has been so dry since the sewer was connected in February that...2025 November 7, Adam Vaughan, “Why London’s ‘supersewer’ is desperately in need of a downpour. The Thames Tideway is designed to prevent sewage spills into waterways, but the capital has had such a...
    Synonyms:
    garden hose

Verb

hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)

  1. To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.

Synonyms of hosepipe

Forms of hosepipe

Noun
pluralhosepipes
Verb
third-person singular presenthosepipes
present participlehosepiping
past participlehosepiped
pasthosepiped

Origin of hosepipe

From hose + pipe.

Questions about hosepipe

What does hosepipe mean?
Hosepipe means a flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.
What part of speech is hosepipe?
Hosepipe can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of hosepipe?
The plural of hosepipe is hosepipes.

Words near hosepipe in the dictionary

  1. hosened
  2. hosenkoside
  3. hosenkosides
  4. hosepack
  5. hosepacks
  6. hosepipe
  7. hosepiped
  8. hosepipes
  9. hosepiping
  10. hoser
  11. hosereel

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