hose

Meaning

Noun

1. A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
2. A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
3. (obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

Verb

1. To water or spray with a hose.
2. To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
3. To deliver using a hose.
4. To provide with hose (garment)
5. To trick or deceive.
6. (slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
7. To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

Synonyms

stocking

hosepipe

tube

sock

hosiery

pipe

flexible tube

hose down

fire hose

flexible pipe

wreck

flexible conduit

rubber tube

metal hose

soft tube

hose tube

India-rubber hose

brick

hose-handling frame

coil

garden hose

hose-pipe

pantyhose

sleeve

sox

stockings

tights

water pipe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊz/

Etymology

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognates:
Compare West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”). Compare Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.