Meaning of gardenhose | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of garden hose.

alt-of, alternative, nonstandard

Examples

“Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation.”

“President Roosevelt launched the Lend-Lease idea at a press conference in November 1940 with the parable “suppose my neighbor's house catches fire, and I have the length of a gardenhose...””

“We can make artificial rainbows with a gardenhose and a sprinkler head adjusted for a very fine spray.”

“They hamper progress over the black, volcanic rubble of the Aleutian Island beaches but are handy in sea sprint. His tail, which looks like a piece of flattened gardenhose, serves as an oar.”

““Now then about machine guns: They work sort of like a gardenhose except they spray death.” - Kurt Vonnegut (1970)”

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