What does garden hose mean?
Garden hose means (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of garden hose..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of garden hose..
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)
Use garden hose when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Garden hose means (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of garden hose..
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Though he had the gardenhose in his hands and a drain outlet near, he failed to use the hose in dissipating the dangerous accumulation.
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