waste pipe

American  

noun

1. a pipe for draining liquid waste or excess liquids.

2. Plumbing. a pipe for draining away the wastes of a building other than those from water closets.

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waste pipe British  

noun

1. a pipe to take excess or used water away, as from a sink to a drain

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Etymology

Origin of waste pipe

First recorded in 1505–15

Example Sentences

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

At last we stopped, and the big boilers sent out their steam through the waste pipe with a loud roar.

From Canada and the States by Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)