Hose and Screw

Hose

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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Screw and hose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Screw" instead a verb "Hose".

Nearby Words: hosing, hosed

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

Usage example: managed to screw his siblings out of their share of the inheritance

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Hose and screw are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hose" instead a verb "Screw". slang substitute

Nearby Words: screwy, screwball, screwed, screwing

old	old hose	old screw
full	full hose	full screw
long	long hose	long screw
single	single hose	single screw
Other adjectives: real, broken, giant.

Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Stephen is an excellent firefighter, but he has a rather reckless and lax attitude to procedure and the rules, never wearing his mask, never waiting for his hose teams, always going head-on into even the worst blazes, etc.

Source: Film / Backdraft

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