hosing

[ hoh-zing ]

/ ˈhoʊ zɪŋ /

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noun Slang.

an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated.

an act or instance of being attacked or defeated decisively; drubbing: Small investors took a hosing in the recent stock-market decline.

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Origin of hosing

L’OréalThe salon experience would be nothing without a luxurious scalp massage—and the hosing down that comes with it.
The most innovative personal care products of 2021|Jordan Blok and Rachel Feltman|December 2, 2021|Popular-Science
It contained robot arms moving wafers, motors that accelerated the reticle—that big piece of glass that holds the pattern—to 32 times Earth’s gravity, and fully 100,000 parts, 3,000 cables, 40,000 bolts, and two kilometers of hosing.
Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law|Clive Thompson|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The fire was out now, the firefighter hosing down the last embers, going through the crowd and checking for injuries.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
He turned and shouted something at the fire-fighter, but he was already hosing down something else.
Makers|Cory Doctorow

The night crew was moving through the empty Main Street, hosing down the streets, sweeping, scrubbing.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
Many greenhouse insects can be kept more or less in check by careful and effective hosing of the plants at proper times.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7|Various