I went with a friend to watch The Blind Side last week before it stopped showing in all the cinemas and the movie was great!! Thanks for the recommendation, Prof!
Anyway, somewhere in the movie, the male lead, Michael Oher used the phrased “totally hosed”. Have never came across it so didn’t know what it really meant.
I can’t remember the exact way he used the phrase in the movie but it was in the context of something like if you’re unpopular with your friends in school or if you let people know you’re a mummy’s boy, you’re totally hosed! From the context I inferred that totally hosed probably means like ‘you’re dead’ or ‘you’re screwed’, somewhat akin to having committed social suicide.
So I quickly googled the phrase when I came home and apparently “hosed” is rather productive!
From urbandictionary.com
1.utterly and undoubtedly affixiated in a troublesome situation
2. reflecting on a situation in a negative manner
syn: Jacked, screwed, fucked
"we got hosed tommy, we got hosed"
Screwed.
in the 'Dude. You're screwed.' sense.
Sometimes also means Stuck.
"You did what?! Hosed, man.
"When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor."
the MIT version: to be completely mentally and physically exhausted from completing some form of academic work typically within the last 8 hours of it being due.
Man I am hosed, I stayed up all night finishing a pset.
HAHA I can’t believe they have an MIT version of this. But apparently not everyone agrees ‘cos they had 135+ but 99-.
to be intoxicated. to be drunk to the point of memory loss and the possibily of pissing the bed becomes high.
If we drink all these 40's we're gonna be hosed.
While googling for definitions of hosed, I also found out that it is used a lot and rather often when it comes to matters pertaining to the computer, internet etc.
From http://dictionary.die.net/hosed
Hosed
primarily by Unix hackers. "Hosed" implies a condition
thought to be relatively easy to reverse. It is also widely
used of people in the mainstream sense of "in an extremely
unfortunate situation". The term was popularised by fighter
pilots refering to being hosed by machine gun fire (date?).
Usage in hackerdom dates back to CMU in the 1970s or
earlier.
From http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Humor/Meanings/
Hosed: Totally screwed or technically disabled. Usually used in reference to a malfunctioning computer app or program. Generally personalized - "I'm hosed" rather than "This is hosed."
From http://www.csgnetwork.com/glossaryh.html
Hosed: To be totally destroyed or otherwise unusable, as in "my hard drive is hosed" or "the network is totally hosed."
Learnt something new that day!
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