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stovepipes

British  
/ ˈstəʊvˌpaɪps /

plural noun

  1. informal tight trousers with narrow legs

"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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Debris from the floods included propane tanks, stovepipes, lawn chairs, dishes and an American flag.

From Fox News Jul. 22, 2021

Rosenberg: So if one of the criticisms pre-9/11 was that there were too many walls and too many stovepipes, the notion of creating another wall or an additional stovepipes didn’t make sense.

From MSNBC Nov. 6, 2019

He hoped, he added, that “we won’t draw any artificial lines and create and stovepipes, and we try to find a way to deal with this in a broader, more deliberative way.”

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2016

Would players limp around the bases with stovepipes on their legs for protection?

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2013

On Phinney Ridge, looming above Ballard, wood smoke curled up from the stovepipes and chimneys of hundreds of modest homes and dissolved into the mist overhead.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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