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drainpipes

drainpipes is the plural of drainpipe.

drainpipes is the ellipsis of drainpipe trousers.

Meaning of drainpipe

Noun

drainpipe (countable and uncountable, plural drainpipes)

  1. A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
    • He unlatched the window and stuck his head out — there was a drainpipe a couple of feet to the left but his room was on the second floor and it was too dark to tell whether the garden below was grass, soil, or paving.2004, Jan-Andrew Henderson, Secret City, →ISBN, page 65
  2. A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
    • Where a lot owner knows that his premises will be flooded in case of a heavy rain, unless a certain city drainpipe in the street adjacent thereto is cleaned out, and gives no notice of it, and makes no effort to remedy the defect, he cannot recover of the city damages caused by flooding his...1895, The Southwestern Reporter - Volume 28, page 1048
    Synonyms:
    culvert, storm drain
  3. A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
    • First you should know that the size of the drain hole in the bottom of the sink is reflective of the drainpipe's diameter that has been standardized by the plumbing industry.1999, Peter King, Architectural Ceramics for the Studio Potter, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    waste pipe
  4. A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
    • For years mechanical refrigerator salesmen have delighted in sticking their finger down inside the drainpipe of an ice refrigerator and drawing it out covered with slime, in an effort to demonstrate to the housewife that ice refrigeration is unclean.1934, Industrial Refrigeration - Volume 86, page 34
  5. (uncountable) The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
    • Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.1979, R. E. D. Bishop, Vibration, →ISBN, page 52
  6. A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
    • 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.2009, Mim Scala, Diary of a Teddy Boy: A Memoir of the Long Sixties, →ISBN, page 25

Meaning of drainpipe trousers

Noun

drainpipe trousers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Synonym of skinny jeans.
    • Some dolls made in Italy had eyes which could follow one about, others made of felt that had their hair dressed and dyed in grey, silver, or blonde, and wore velvet drainpipe trousers and lace brassières over their slightly busted fronts.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 211
    Synonyms:
    skinny jeans

Questions about drainpipes

What is drainpipes the plural of?
Drainpipes is the plural of drainpipe.

Words near drainpipes in the dictionary

  1. drainouts
  2. drainpipe
  3. drainpipe jeans
  4. drainpipe pants
  5. drainpipe trousers
  6. drainpipes
  7. drainplug
  8. drainplugs
  9. drains
  10. drains away
  11. drains out

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