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tailpipes

tailpipes is the plural of tailpipe.

tailpipes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tailpipe.

Meaning of tailpipe

Noun

tailpipe (plural tailpipes)

  1. An exhaust pipe exhausting to the aft of the vehicle.
    • Holonym: exhaust system
  2. (US, especially) An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration).
    • Today's cars emit less NoX at the tailpipe than their 20th-century predecessors did.

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Questions about tailpipes

What is tailpipes the plural of?
Tailpipes is the plural of tailpipe.

Words near tailpipes in the dictionary

  1. tailpieces
  2. tailpin
  3. tailpins
  4. tailpipe
  5. tailpiped
  6. tailpipes
  7. tailpiping
  8. tailplane
  9. tailplanes
  10. tailplug
  11. tailplugs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailpipes (page history and authors); tailpipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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