Definition of "firehoses" [firehoses]

• Plural form of firehose. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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?"
• "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."