tailpipe

[teyl-pahyp]

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; tail1 + pipe1
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Tailpipe is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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tailpipe (ˈteɪlˌpaɪp)
 
n
a pipe from which the exhaust gases from an internal-combustion engine are discharged, esp the terminal pipe of the exhaust system of a motor vehicle

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