fireplug
A fire hydrant.
Noun
- A fire hydrant.
- She is a strong and warm-hearted and hard-working farmer in her early sixties. She is built like a fireplug. - 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 22:
Origin
From fire + plug, referring to the system used prior to fire hydrants, in which a large plug was placed into a hole in the water main, then covered with a barrel. The plug was removed when water was needed.