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tail pipe

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tail⋅pipe

[teyl-pahyp]
–noun
an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Also, tail pipe.


Origin:
1880–85, in sense, “suction pipe of a pump”; 1905–10 for current sense; tail 1 + pipe 1
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