tailpipe

or tail pipe

[ teyl-pahyp ]

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

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How to use tailpipe in a sentence

Moreover, natural gas does little (as yet) to address emissions from automobile tailpipes.
Let's Tax Carbon | David Frum | December 3, 2012 | THE 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

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