fire hose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire hoses
form: firehose
Etymology: From fire + hose.
Senses: examples: text: Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.
ref: 1954 June, “Yonge Street Subway, Toronto”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
hypernyms: hose
coordinate_terms: garden hose
glosses: A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
examples: text: She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.
glosses: Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
examples: text: Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)
ref: 2012, Rob Garner, Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 286:
text: This is cool because, even though the YouTube firehose is on full blast, you only need an instance of the feed and from that firehose, you can filter out what you need for alerts for as many keywords as you like.
ref: 2013, Marty Weintraub, Lauren Litwinka, The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 172:
text: However, it is worth bearing in mind that even those services with access to the Twitter 'firehose' (direct API) do not have anything even approaching a complete Twitter archive.
ref: 2013, Murray Dick, Search: Theory and Practice in Journalism Online, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Here we will briefly consider web crawlers, webscraping software, data feeds (RSS and other feeds, firehoses etc), human cutting and pasting, panels, MROCs, Netnography, and text analytics.
ref: 2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
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glosses: A feed of all updates to a website.
synonyms: word: anaconda
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word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: A human penis.
glosses: An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.
Related terms: standpipe