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

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

In a separate incident, Bulverhythe beach in Hastings, on the East Sussex coast, reopened on Friday after a "serious" sewage leak caused by a burst Southern Water waste pipe.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2021

The debris was stuck in the sediment trap of the sink’s waste pipe.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2016

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

Old Battiste rolled up his trousers and stepped into the water in the wash-house, to pull out the stopper from the waste pipe so that the flood could subside from the land of Noah.

From Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Spyri, Johanna