hosepipe

English

Etymology

From hose +‎ pipe.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hosepipe (plural hosepipes)

1. (UK, South Africa, Southern US) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.
   • 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 7:

     In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban. But he had been too busy to haul full buckets the garden's length.

Synonyms

• garden hose

Translations

hose

• Afrikaans: slang (af), tuinslang
• Dutch: slang (nl) f, tuinslang (nl) f
• Faroese: slanga (fo) f, vatnslanga f
• Finnish: letku (fi)
• French: tuyau d'arrosage m
• German: Schlauch (de) m, Wasserschlauch (de) m, Gartenschlauch (de) m
• Icelandic: slanga (is) f, vatnsslanga f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slange (no) m, hageslange m

  Nynorsk: slange (nn), hageslange m

• Swedish: slang (sv) m or c
• Ukrainian: поливний шланг (polyvnyj šlanh)

Verb

hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)

1. (film, television) To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.