What does drainpipe mean?
Drainpipe means A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained..
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/ˈdɹeɪnˌpaɪp/ · noun
A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained..
Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.
. Buy enough unperforated, rigid plastic drainpipe for the job at a building supply center; also buy a 90-degree drainpipe elbow, drainpipe couplings, and any adapter available to join the drainpipe and downspout.
Tangled in the bushes we found a rusty length of drainpipe; we fastened it to the tree and made a kind of big nest above in the branches and spent a lot of time scrambling up and down the tree into the nest and hollering secret coded messages into the drainpipe to a comrade below.
It stood upended in the middle of the room, cylindrical as a length of earthenware drainpipe – which, in fact, it was – and gay as a Joseph's coat of many colours.
At the flick of a switch I would change mode and tart up in my new Toby, a horrendous copy of a Savile Row suit, waisted, with a twelve-inch vent at the back, drainpipe trousers and a rose in my buttonhole.
He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black.
You also had punks who were again easily identifiable as a group and the members of that group did their best to look different, sporting different uses of hair colour and rips that could occur anywhere in their black drainpipe jeans, army trousers, or in their prolific graffiti'd denim jackets, as well as the hard wearing black leather studded jackets which would sometimes have the famous anarchy symbol and the names of whatever punk bands the individual happened to admire.
Use drainpipe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drainpipe means A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained..
Common synonyms include downspout, downpipe, leader, culvert.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.
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