Beat and Hose

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Beat verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: the screenwriter has filed a lawsuit, accusing the production company of beating him out of his share of the film's net profits

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Hose and beat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hose" instead a verb "Beat". slang substitute

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

Hose verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.

Usage example: when the guy failed to return with our money, we sooned realized that we had been hosed

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Beat and hose are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a verb "Hose".

Nearby Words: hosing, hosed

old	old beat	old hose
nice	nice beat	nice hose
long	long beat	long hose
short	short beat	short hose
Other adjectives: single, simple, giant.

If I had a rubber hose, I would beat you into a... Obnoxious In-Laws: Ellen's parents to Clark.

Source: Film / National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
If I had a rubber hose, I would beat you into a... Big Eater: Snots the dog and cousin Eddie.

Source: Film / National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
For a different kind of brute force, there's always "rubber hose cryptanalysis", in which you bypass all the software/hardware troubles and just beat the passwords out of everyone involved.

Source: Cutting the Knot

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