Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose. · One that hoses, i.e. hurts someone badly. · A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment. · A person who hoses down a lake after a game of ice hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
From hose + -er. The Canadian senses originally derive from hose (“to siphon gasoline from automobile gas tanks”), in reference to farmers who siphoned gas from farming vehicles; they were later reinforced by use to describe the players on the losing side of a game of shinny or hockey, who were required to hose down the rink to return it to a smooth state, and ultimately popularized in the 1980s by a sketch on the television show Second City Television, in which Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas played Bob and Doug McKenzie, who used the term as an insult for each other.
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