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noun

a special heavy-duty hose for use in fighting destructive fires.

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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How to use fire hose in a sentence

A comma-shaped swirl of moderate to heavy rainfall traced its spiral circulation, the back edge of the tropical fire hose having ceased in New York City and advancing across the Long Island.
Tropical Storm Elsa drenching New England after deluging Mid-Atlantic|Matthew Cappucci|July 9, 2021|Washington Post
And, if the streaming fire hose has taught us anything, it’s that infinite choice is only as good as the curators who help us find the good stuff.
Did Warner Bros. just kill movie theaters? Not by a long shot.|Ann Hornaday|December 4, 2020|Washington Post
“He brings stuff to the table like ‘incredible intelligence’ and ‘infinite trivia fire hose,’” she tells me.
Inside the Misunderstood Mind of Jeopardy! Champ Arthur Chu, Who Is Not Ruining the Show|Sujay Kumar|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But the men could not extend a fire hose by simply dropping it from a truck; there was too much debris around.
A Japanese Firefighter Talks Surviving the Nuclear Reactors|Lennox Samuels|April 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Having lunch with Dylan Ratigan is a bit like being sprayed with a fire hose.
The Angriest Man on Cable|Lloyd Grove|June 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
And a lot of candidates and officeholders on the right are drinking from it like a fire hose.
The GOP's Tea Party Challenge|Mark McKinnon|January 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST
One after another of them went down under the force of the stream from the fire hose.
The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats|James R. Mears
A concentrated stream of needles hit, like a metallic fire hose, knocked the foot aside, toppled the man again.
Greylorn|John Keith Laumer
Dan Hicks ran up on deck and returned dragging the deck fire hose behind him.
Captain Scraggs|Peter B. Kyne
Scraggs, knowing his own fire hose, defied them, so Dan Hicks started the pump while Flaherty turned on the water.
Captain Scraggs|Peter B. Kyne
"I'll get a new fire hose an' fire buckets; I'll fix the ash hoist and run the bedbugs an' cockroaches out of her," he added.
Captain Scraggs|Peter B. Kyne