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1. (transitive verb)to spray, soak, wash, or rinse something or somebody with water from a hose.

1.(slang/transitive verb) To deceive or trick somebody.
(slang/transitive verb) To make a computer system nonfunctional or greatly degrade the performance of a system

3.(Acronym) H.O.S.E.D. -> Hardware Or Software Error Detected
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Etymological thing (0_O):
Old English hosa “leg covering, husk” (hence “flexible tube”). Ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning “to cover,” which is also the ancestor of English hut, scum, and sky.
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I'm too lazy.. lol.. and spleepy(rightnow).. to write an example..

Steven hosed my computer..
hosed by Som_Guy January 26, 2005
"Mike was trying to get into that club, but he got hosed."
hosed by Eliot February 17, 2004
impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)
yo, wanna go to dinner?

sorry man, i'm hosed. i've got 3 problem sets due tomorrow morning, none of which i've started.
hosed by wsnx December 18, 2008
Originally developed as 'short' for "rubber-hosed", as in beating someone or something severely with a rubber hose. It quickly expanded in popularity and use to mean pretty much anything or anybody really messed up.

My college fraternity in Mpls, MN (Univ of MN)starting using this as 'code' around parents on parents-day at the fraternity; since we couldn't say something was "f*cked-up" in front of our parents. This was back in early 1970, a couple of years before Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis started using it in SCTV Doug & Bob McKenzie episodes. Since my fraternity brothers traveling to northern MN, Chicago, and even Canada on school breaks; I beleive SCTV picked it up from my fraternity brothers using it and spreading it around. I do. It was at least a couple of years before them that my frat-house brothers were using it.
As in "that's really hosed" dear brother, or
you're gonna get "hosed" on that test you didn't study for!

For Homecoming in Fall 71, myself and a fraternity brother were responsible for outside frat-house decorations. We of course got drunk, and at the last second hung a bedsheet from the front of the frat house 2nd floor porch railing, with "Hose the Hawkeyes" painted on the bedsheet!

Just before passing out I draped about 8 feet of gardenhose over the front of message. we were a real class-act backed then.
shit-faced, loaded, hammered, pissed, wasted, intoxicated, drunk, fucked up, gone, or otherwise suffering effects of alcohol
Man, I had to be hosed to go home with that fat ho!
hosed by shum February 21, 2003
Destroying someone so bad at a game or life situation that they are completely demoralized and reconsider their purpose in life.
Bro we Hosed the shit out of those fools at beerball last night. Nothing like hosing a bunch of noobs.
Hosed by Bubblewrapmasta June 29, 2011