firehose

See also: fire hose

English

Noun

firehose (plural firehoses)

Alternative spelling of fire hose
(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.
- 2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
  The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

Translations

thick, high-pressure hose

Finnish: paloletku (fi)
Korean: 소방호스 (sobanghoseu)

Norwegian: brannslange m

Verb

firehose (third-person singular simple present firehoses, present participle firehosing, simple past and past participle firehosed)

To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish a fire.

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