great unhosed en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by Chris Morris in the 1997 Brass Eye episode "Crime" in a satirical parody of crime reporting, with the apparent implication that the people referred to should be cleaned with a hose like farm animals.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of great unwashed.
alt of great unwashed
And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.
1997 February 26, Chris Morris, “Crime”, in Brass Eye:Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed.
2011, Carlos Alba, Kane's Ladder, Birlinn, →ISBN:He fills the trough at which the great unhosed tuck in and pig out
2014, Allan Brown, 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland, Hachette UK, →ISBN: