water cannon

1. 1.

   a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters)

   Synonymswatercannon

   Broaderhose

Questions about water cannon

What does water cannon mean?

water cannon means "a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters)".

What is another word for water cannon?

Close synonyms include watercannon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water cannon a common word?

water cannon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.