drainpipe

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.

   • 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.
2. 2

   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.
   • . 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.
3. 3

   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.
   • He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black.

The neighborhood

• neighbordrainout
• neighbordrainplug
• neighbortailpipe