Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hose v.2

[hose n.1 ]

1. to urinate on.

c.1900
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1993
[UK]‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 131: That’s better than being pissed down your back [...] how you squirmed [...] when you felt Harry hosing you down.
[US]M. Myers et al. Wayne’s World II [film script] King George whipped out his weiner and hosed our fore-fathers with one big, long piss.

2. (US campus) to curry favour with.

[US]Randolph & Pingry ‘Kansas University Sl.’ in AS III:3 218: Apple polisher, n.—One who hoses a prof, that is, tries to wheedle him out of a good grade.

3. in sexual contexts.

(a) (also hose down) to copulate with (always from a man’s point of view).

1950
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2001
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 102/1: Hose, v. 1. To have sexual intercourse with.
[US]Baker et al. CUSS.
[US]San Diego Sailor 19: I’d never done more than just hose a broad.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 4: hose down – to engage in sexual activity: At the party we drank beer and hosed down some girls.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Spring 5: hose – to have sex with.
[US]N. Green Shooting Dr. Jack (2002) 145: You been hosing the mayor’s girlfriend again?

(b) (gay) to sodomize.

[US]Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 22: hose (v.): To pedicate. (vbl. n.): hosing. The act of pedication.

(c) (US campus) of a woman, to search for a sexual partner.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Fall 3: hose – for a female to pick up a sexual partner: ‘She was hosing around in Four Corners last night’.

4. based on image of piss on v. (1)

(a) (US campus) to fail, to do badly, to be rejected.

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1989
[US] W. Safire What’s The Good Word? 304: I’ve got to go book for my Govy final as I got hosed on the midterm.
[US]J. Doyle College Sl. Dict. 🌐 hosed [Princeton] failed to achieve something; was rejected.

(b) (US campus) to be treated badly.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 3: hose – treat someone unfairly, with disdain. ‘You just got hosed.’.

(c) (US campus) to have too much work to do.

[US]College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Hose (verb) [...] 3. To give too much work to do.