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fire hydrant a hydrant for use as an emergency supply for fighting fires, esp one in a street fire hydrant [′fīr ‚hī·drənt] (civil engineering) An outlet from a water main provided inside buildings or outdoors to which fire hoses can be connected. Also known as fire plug; hydrant. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This satisfying 14-track set, lustily recorded so you can almost taste the Stella, finds the 64-year-old fireplug in muscular shape, devoting himself to blues old and new, backed by a superb band. Arrows, X's, and pictographs fill the gestural arena, and Crews exploits the nature of signs more so with fireplugs, klaxon horns, and directional markers. The book abounds with people "exiting" vehicles and rooms, fleeing perpetrators, "sharp-jawed" supervisors, cops with "forearms big, like a steelworker," or "built like a fireplug," another with "Popeye" forearms, and so on. |
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