watercannon

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswater cannon

   Broaderhose

Other forms of watercannon

plural

watercannons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about watercannon

What does watercannon mean?

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

How many syllables are in watercannon?

watercannon has 4 syllables: wa-ter-can-non. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for watercannon?

Close synonyms include water cannon. 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 watercannon a common word?

watercannon 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.