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HOHZP-yp/ˈhəʊzpaɪp/

A hosepipe is the long garden tube you unroll to water plants or wash the car (UK). US speakers usually say a hose or a garden hose. A tap is where it connects; a sprinkler is the spinning head. In a dry summer the news may mention a hosepipe ban — you must not use one. Countable.

Meaning

A long flexible tube for watering the garden or washing the car (UK).

Examples

• “Unwind the hosepipe and water the tomato plants.”
• “Turn the tap off at the wall or the hosepipe will drip all night.”
• “A hosepipe ban started in July, so we used washing-up water on the pots.”

Good to know

a hosepipe (UK). US: a (garden) hose. Collocation: a hosepipe ban.

Near in meaning

hose, garden hose

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