waste pipe
Americannoun
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a pipe for draining liquid waste or excess liquids.
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Plumbing. a pipe for draining away the wastes of a building other than those from water closets.
noun
Etymology
Origin of waste pipe
First recorded in 1505–15
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Locals spotted the emission - which they said smelled like "rotting fish" - coming from a waste pipe at the Lochyside flood defences into the River Lochy on Sunday.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
The worker went to the unit below that apartment and cut what he believed to be a drain waste pipe to remove the clog and put a cap on the pipe.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
With such stories as those of April Jones, Drummer Lee Rigby, the Chinese baby freed from a waste pipe and Michael Douglas's cancer diagnosis, one's imagination naturally gallops ahead of the facts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2013
Why don't they just name comedy clubs after comedians?Why does the outside of the base of most toilet tanks show the path of the waste pipe?
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2011
The water running down a waste pipe, for instance, will annoy some people, and provision must be made to avoid this noise or to silence it.
From Elements of Plumbing by Samuel Edward Dibble
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