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hose

noun as in stockings

Strong match

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The next day, when firefighters returned to collect fire hoses, “it appeared to them that the fire was fully extinguished,” according to an affidavit by a special agent with the ATF.

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The manager pieced together a full ensemble of kilt, jacket, sporran, hose and brogues.

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Several boys are seen repeatedly hitting a fellow pupil with various objects, including a hockey stick, hose pipe and belt.

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He shocked many French in 2005 when he vowed to use a high-pressure Kärcher hose to “clean up” the country’s impoverished suburbs.

Anyone who bought gold in the late 1970s or early 1980s got hosed — while stocks and bonds boomed.

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