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hosepipes

hosepipes is the plural of hosepipe.

hosepipes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hosepipe.

Meaning of hosepipe

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
    Synonyms:
    garden hose

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Questions about hosepipes

What is hosepipes the plural of?
Hosepipes is the plural of hosepipe.

Words near hosepipes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hosepipes (page history and authors); hosepipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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