fire hose

1. 1.

   a large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire

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Questions about fire hose

What does fire hose mean?

fire hose means "a large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire".

Is fire hose a common word?

fire hose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.