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  • noun Plural form of firehose.

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Examples

  • Do you think the government would have stood by watching the destruction without swat teams, dogs, firehoses, rubber bullets and all other necessary force required to stop the anarchy?

    House expected to vote on Iranian resolution 2009

  • To counter attacks, tanker owners have begun putting barbed wire around ship guardrails and installing firehoses that can launch high pressure jets of water at attackers.

    Oil tanker terror hijacks easy, attacks complex 2011

  • Libertarians believe that sheriffs (being government officials) should not be allowed to discriminate, and that nobody should be allowed to use firehoses, attack dogs, and guns against protestors.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

  • Little children are no longer having firehoses and dogs turned on them when they march for their civil rights.

    Mike Lux: Is All Hope Gone? Mike Lux 2010

  • Little children are no longer having firehoses and dogs turned on them when they march for their civil rights.

    Mike Lux: Is All Hope Gone? Mike Lux 2010

  • We started with cups and buckets and hats full of water and ended up with two firehoses.

    Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010

  • I got all the skin torn off my elbow and my wrist as I was sloshed first in one direction and then in the other by the two firehoses.

    Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010

  • Little children are no longer having firehoses and dogs turned on them when they march for their civil rights.

    Mike Lux: Is All Hope Gone? Mike Lux 2010

  • Little children are no longer having firehoses and dogs turned on them when they march for their civil rights.

    Mike Lux: Is All Hope Gone? Mike Lux 2010

  • Libertarians believe that sheriffs being government officials should not be allowed to discriminate, and that nobody should be allowed to use firehoses, attack dogs, and guns against protestors.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

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