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单词 tailpipe
释义

tailpipe

or tail pipe

[ teyl-pahyp ]
/ ˈteɪlˌpaɪp /

noun

an exhaust pipe located at the rear of a motor vehicle or aircraft powered by an internal-combustion engine.

Origin of tailpipe

1880–85, in sense, “suction pipe of a pump”; 1905–10 for current sense; tail1 + pipe1

Words nearby tailpipe

tailor's chalk, tailor's muscle, tailor's-tack, tail out, tailpiece, tailpipe, tail plane, tailrace, tail rotor, tails, tail skid
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Example sentences from the Web for tailpipe

  • The advantage of pure electric vehicles is no gasoline consumption and no tailpipe emissions.

    Electric Vehicles May Be the Green Car of the Future, But Hybrids Are the Green Car of the Present|Megan McArdle|January 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
  • Then they stuck a tailpipe back into the truck and sealed up the back.

    ‘Soldaten: Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs’ by Soenke Neitzel & Harald Welzer|Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer|September 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for tailpipe

tailpipe
/ (ˈteɪlˌpaɪp) /

noun

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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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