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agony-pipes

agony-pipes is the plural of agony-pipe.

Meaning of agony-pipe

Noun

agony-pipe (plural agony-pipes)

  1. (jazz slang) A clarinet.
    • This was that same agony-pipe, which, in the German rhapsody, wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom...1957, Metronome, volume 74, page 17

Questions about agony-pipes

What is agony-pipes the plural of?
Agony-pipes is the plural of agony-pipe.

Words near agony-pipes in the dictionary

  1. agony column
  2. agony columns
  3. agony uncle
  4. agony uncles
  5. agony-pipe
  6. agony-pipes
  7. Agoo
  8. agood
  9. Agopian
  10. Agopians
  11. agora

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