"drainpipe" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drainpipe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: drainpipes [plural]
Etymology: drain + pipe Etymology templates: {{compound|en|drain|pipe}} drain + pipe Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} drainpipe (countable and uncountable, plural drainpipes)
  1. A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
    A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (vertical pipe from roof gutter): downspout, downpipe, leader Translations (pipe connecting the drain to the gutter): χολέδρα (kholédra) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), 排水管 (páishuǐguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), äravoolutoru (Estonian), drenaažitoru (Estonian), syöksytorvi (Finnish), descente [feminine] (French), Regenrohr [neuter] (German), Fallrohr [neuter] (German), ereszcsatorna (Hungarian), esőcsatorna (Hungarian), píopa taosctha [masculine] (Irish), tubo di scolo [masculine] (Italian), tubo di drenaggio [masculine] (Italian), 排水管 (haisuikan) (alt: はいすいかん) (Japanese), 배수관 (baesugwan) (alt: 排水管) (Korean), ناو (nav) (Ottoman Turkish), rynna (odpływowa) [feminine] (Polish), burlan [neuter] (Romanian), jgheab [neuter] (Romanian), водосто́чная труба́ (vodostóčnaja trubá) [feminine] (Russian), дрена́жная труба́ (drenážnaja trubá) [feminine] (Russian), rone-pipe (Scots), stupränna [common-gender] (Swedish), gider borusu (Turkish), ống thoát nước (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-8shCSJFZ Disambiguation of 'vertical pipe from roof gutter': 51 9 18 9 10 3 Disambiguation of 'pipe connecting the drain to the gutter': 32 17 14 15 17 5
  2. A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
    A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (conduit for rain or flood water): culvert, storm drain
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-Nm-~-1f1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 28 12 16 20 11 Disambiguation of 'conduit for rain or flood water': 7 67 5 8 9 4
  3. A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
    A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (pipe from bathtub, sink): waste pipe [usually]
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-3l~bJnRx Disambiguation of 'pipe from bathtub, sink': 14 10 49 10 11 5
  4. A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
    A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-aTQ-LD4t
  5. (uncountable) The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-Y4u4LmvK
  6. A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (type of trousers): stovepipe, skinny jeans
    Sense id: en-drainpipe-en-noun-ChTBULPv Disambiguation of 'type of trousers': 0 0 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drain pipe Derived forms: drainpipe trousers, like a rat up a drainpipe Related terms: drainout, drainplug

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          "ref": "2004, Jan-Andrew Henderson, Secret City, page 65",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2007, Peter Lague, FCS Construction Plumbing L3, page 155",
          "text": "We said earlier that we normally use a curved or bent piece of pipe at the top of the drainpipe where it is connected to the gutter, and a fitting at the bottom end of the drainpipe that directs the water into a channel or a drain or gully.",
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          "text": "2012, Peter Jinks, Hallam Foe, pages He picked out a sturdy-looking drainpipe leading up to the roof. Without hesitation he descended the few feet of sloping lawn in several short light steps, crossed the gravel with three delicate munches, and placed his right toe on the drainpipe's second bracket.:",
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          "ref": "2013, David P. Perlmutter, Wrong Place Wrong Time",
          "text": "There was a black drainpipe running the entire height of the hotel wall alongside her balcony and I managed to pull myself onto it, gripping the rough, rusty metal as firmly as I could.",
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          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "word": "descente"
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          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "roman": "kholédra",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "word": "tubo di scolo"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "word": "tubo di drenaggio"
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          "alt": "はいすいかん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "haisuikan",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "排水管"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "baesugwan",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "배수관"
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          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "nav",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "ناو"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "rynna (odpływowa)"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vodostóčnaja trubá",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "водосто́чная труба́"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "drenážnaja trubá",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "дрена́жная труба́"
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          "code": "sco",
          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "rone-pipe"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
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          "word": "stupränna"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "gider borusu"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
          "word": "ống thoát nước"
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          "ref": "1895, The Southwestern Reporter - Volume 28, page 1048",
          "text": "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 premises during such storm.",
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          "ref": "2009, Mary Louise DeMott, Mary Rumford, The Adventure of Lisa and the Drainpipe Prayer, page 86",
          "text": "She's in a drainpipe--right there,\" I said, pointing toward the hole in the side of the ditch.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Joe R Lansdale, The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, page 80",
          "text": "Her body was found stuffed in a big, ole drainpipe down near the river.",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Peter King, Architectural Ceramics for the Studio Potter",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos, page 80",
          "text": "A crude analogy is to liken this to water draining noisily from a bathtub. As the liquid falls down into the drainpipe, some of its swirling kinetic energy is converted into sound waves, water bashing against molecules of air.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Johnny Zapata, From Sinsemilla to Sins Forgiven: I Chose the Right Path, pages 12–13",
          "text": "Since we didn't have a septic tank, we made sure there was an empty bucket underneath the sink. That's where we had a straight drainpipe, and after the dishes were washed, we would take the bucket from underneath the sink and throw waatever was in there outside.",
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          "ref": "1934, Industrial Refrigeration - Volume 86, page 34",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1947, Albert Henry Andrews, Manual of oxygen therapy techniques",
          "text": "Attach the rubber tubing to the drainpipe of the ice chamber and place the end in a pail.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, M L Gambhir, Neha Jamwal, Building and Construction Materials",
          "text": "Start the securely anchored centrifuge and slowly increase to the proper speed (2000 – 2500 rpm). Solvent will be rapidly expelled from the drainpipe.",
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          "ref": "1979, R. E. D. Bishop, Vibration, page 52",
          "text": "Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.",
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          "ref": "1990, Time-Life Books, Basement and Foundation, page 85",
          "text": ". 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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Joel Rogosin, Writing a Life, page 310",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Music At Long Verney",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009, Mim Scala, Diary of a Teddy Boy: A Memoir of the Long Sixties, page 25",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Sue Limb -, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious",
          "text": "He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black.",
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          "ref": "2012, Christine Levy, Memoirs of London: From 1960s to Present Day, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
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      "word": "drainplug"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Jan-Andrew Henderson, Secret City, page 65",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Peter Lague, FCS Construction Plumbing L3, page 155",
          "text": "We said earlier that we normally use a curved or bent piece of pipe at the top of the drainpipe where it is connected to the gutter, and a fitting at the bottom end of the drainpipe that directs the water into a channel or a drain or gully.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Peter Jinks, Hallam Foe, pages He picked out a sturdy-looking drainpipe leading up to the roof. Without hesitation he descended the few feet of sloping lawn in several short light steps, crossed the gravel with three delicate munches, and placed his right toe on the drainpipe's second bracket.:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, David P. Perlmutter, Wrong Place Wrong Time",
          "text": "There was a black drainpipe running the entire height of the hotel wall alongside her balcony and I managed to pull myself onto it, gripping the rough, rusty metal as firmly as I could.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.",
        "A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "verticle",
          "verticle"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "roof",
          "roof"
        ],
        [
          "gutter",
          "gutter"
        ],
        [
          "downspout",
          "downspout"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, The Southwestern Reporter - Volume 28, page 1048",
          "text": "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 premises during such storm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mary Louise DeMott, Mary Rumford, The Adventure of Lisa and the Drainpipe Prayer, page 86",
          "text": "She's in a drainpipe--right there,\" I said, pointing toward the hole in the side of the ditch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Joe R Lansdale, The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, page 80",
          "text": "Her body was found stuffed in a big, ole drainpipe down near the river.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.",
        "A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conduit",
          "conduit"
        ],
        [
          "rainwater",
          "rainwater"
        ],
        [
          "flood",
          "flood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Peter King, Architectural Ceramics for the Studio Potter",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos, page 80",
          "text": "A crude analogy is to liken this to water draining noisily from a bathtub. As the liquid falls down into the drainpipe, some of its swirling kinetic energy is converted into sound waves, water bashing against molecules of air.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Johnny Zapata, From Sinsemilla to Sins Forgiven: I Chose the Right Path, pages 12–13",
          "text": "Since we didn't have a septic tank, we made sure there was an empty bucket underneath the sink. That's where we had a straight drainpipe, and after the dishes were washed, we would take the bucket from underneath the sink and throw waatever was in there outside.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.",
        "A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "wastewater",
          "wastewater"
        ],
        [
          "bathtub",
          "bathtub"
        ],
        [
          "shower",
          "shower"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Industrial Refrigeration - Volume 86, page 34",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, Albert Henry Andrews, Manual of oxygen therapy techniques",
          "text": "Attach the rubber tubing to the drainpipe of the ice chamber and place the end in a pail.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, M L Gambhir, Neha Jamwal, Building and Construction Materials",
          "text": "Start the securely anchored centrifuge and slowly increase to the proper speed (2000 – 2500 rpm). Solvent will be rapidly expelled from the drainpipe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.",
        "A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ],
        [
          "fluid",
          "fluid"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, R. E. D. Bishop, Vibration, page 52",
          "text": "Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Time-Life Books, Basement and Foundation, page 85",
          "text": ". 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Joel Rogosin, Writing a Life, page 310",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Music At Long Verney",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mim Scala, Diary of a Teddy Boy: A Memoir of the Long Sixties, page 25",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Sue Limb -, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious",
          "text": "He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Christine Levy, Memoirs of London: From 1960s to Present Day, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form-fitting",
          "form-fitting"
        ],
        [
          "trousers",
          "trousers"
        ],
        [
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          "tapered"
        ],
        [
          "legs",
          "legs"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "vertical pipe from roof gutter",
      "word": "downspout"
    },
    {
      "sense": "vertical pipe from roof gutter",
      "word": "downpipe"
    },
    {
      "sense": "vertical pipe from roof gutter",
      "word": "leader"
    },
    {
      "sense": "conduit for rain or flood water",
      "word": "culvert"
    },
    {
      "sense": "conduit for rain or flood water",
      "word": "storm drain"
    },
    {
      "sense": "pipe from bathtub, sink",
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ],
      "word": "waste pipe"
    },
    {
      "sense": "type of trousers",
      "word": "stovepipe"
    },
    {
      "sense": "type of trousers",
      "word": "skinny jeans"
    },
    {
      "word": "drain pipe"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "páishuǐguǎn",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "排水管"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "äravoolutoru"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "drenaažitoru"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "syöksytorvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "descente"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Regenrohr"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Fallrohr"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kholédra",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "χολέδρα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "ereszcsatorna"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "esőcsatorna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "píopa taosctha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tubo di scolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tubo di drenaggio"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はいすいかん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "haisuikan",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "排水管"
    },
    {
      "alt": "排水管",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "baesugwan",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "배수관"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "nav",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "ناو"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rynna (odpływowa)"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "burlan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "jgheab"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vodostóčnaja trubá",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "водосто́чная труба́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "drenážnaja trubá",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дрена́жная труба́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "rone-pipe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stupränna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "gider borusu"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "pipe connecting the drain to the gutter",
      "word": "ống thoát nước"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drainpipe"
}

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