DRAINPIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drainpipe mean? 

• DRAINPIPE (noun)
  The noun DRAINPIPE has 1 sense:

1. a pipe through which liquid is carried away

  Familiarity information: DRAINPIPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAINPIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pipe through which liquid is carried away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drain; drainpipe; waste pipe

Hypernyms ("drainpipe" is a kind of...):

pipage; pipe; piping (a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drainpipe"):

culvert (a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway)

scupper (drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard)

cloaca; sewer; sewerage (a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water)

soil pipe (drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc.)

trap (drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas)