rubber hose

Garden watering tube

A rubber hose is a flexible tube made of rubber, used to convey water, air, or other fluids: garden hose, fire hose.

In interrogation contexts, a rubber hose is associated with coercive techniques—beating suspects in ways that leave no visible marks.

Rubber-hose cryptanalysis is the joke term for extracting passwords through physical coercion rather than mathematical attack.

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material flexibility

rubber hosesteel pipe

Hollow alloy cylinder

metal pipe · copper pipe · iron pipe · cast iron pipe · lead pipe

material composition

rubber hosecopper tubing

Hollow metallic conduit material

iron pipe · steel tubing · glass tube

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rubber, hose, rub, rubbed, rubbing, rubbers, rubbery, hoses, hosed

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G