drainpipe

• “Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.”

  Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing

• “Vital Signs - If there is one thing guaranteed to set a Lemmings teeth on edge it's white guys with dreadlocks, no I really mean 'drainpipe' reggae (i.e. no flair).”

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• “She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.”

  Fictionaut: "The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)

• “It was always too dark, or windy, it was too late to call or she would have grown blooms enough to rasp against the drainpipe, she could have frilled the sills with fringe.”

  Fictionaut: Painted Garden

• “I snuck back to the house, climbing the back shed drainpipe and dropping to the floor of my bedroom, before stripping the leotard off and burying it deep in my laundry basket.”

  Fictionaut: four-leafed clover

• “The courtyard was only twenty square yards, but there was a drainpipe where the fence met the wall.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “Once I climbed up a drainpipe and along a gutter to avoid a fence around the ward and escaped into the bushes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “Sentenced to a merciless work detail in the subterranean drainpipe after one of Munsey's stool pigeons is killed in a machine-shop accident, Collins determines to hatch a breakout plan with his cellmates.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life

• “Gaddafi was being pulled from a drainpipe just before Nasr fell.”

  The Huffington Post: Gaddafi's Driver Huneish Nasr And Bodyguard Mansour Dao Speak Out

• “If it's mileage you're after, discount services such as BoltBus and Megabus offer $29 round-trip fares to cities like Baltimore on motorcoaches equipped with free Wi-Fi and bathrooms the width of a drainpipe.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Stretching $29 to Its Limits

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