hose

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To water or spray with a hose.
• To deliver using a hose.
• To provide with hose
• To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
• To trick or deceive.
• To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English hose, from Old English hose, hosa, from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.
• Compare West Frisian hoas, Dutch hoos, German Hose. Compare Tocharian A kać, Russian кишка́, Ancient Greek κύστις, Sanskrit कोष्ठ. More at sky.