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  pipe rack

  noun

  a usually wheeled rack of metal piping on which to hang clothing, as in a store.
• pipe-rack
  pipe-rack

  adjective

  offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.

pipe rack

¹ American  

noun

1. a usually wheeled rack of metal piping on which to hang clothing, as in a store.

2. a small rack, usually of wood, for holding a smoker's pipes.

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pipe-rack ² American  

[pahyp-rak] / ˈpaɪpˌræk /

adjective

Informal.

1. offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.

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Etymology

Origin of pipe-rack

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

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With its stereo, Dunhill pipe rack and mobile telephone, the Rolls is almost a house on wheels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Midway takes the plain pipe rack approach to flights between Chicago and Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis and Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap.

From Time Magazine Archive

A carved wooden mermaid holding a pipe rack.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

He missed all his little comforts,—slippers, dressing-gown, pipe rack and writing table; all the little details which played an important part in his daily life.

From Married by Strindberg, August

Delta's plain pipe-rack operation on the ground is not visible in the air, where it has won faithful business travelers for its efficient, on-time service.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just below the window and over the desk, was a pipe-rack with pipes to fit every mood and fancy of a lonely man.

From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

Then at last, as if finding the object really sought for, his eyes had come round to the mantel-piece and rested on the pipe-rack.

From The Masquerader by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

The smoke went out in his pipe; he knocked the ashes from it and put it away mechanically in the common pipe-rack over the radiator.

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

"It's a thing you pile up on the floor to stand upon when you want to fix a new pipe-rack."

From Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)