Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The pipe through which exhaust gases from an engine are discharged. Also called exhaust pipe.
Wiktionary
- n. US An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle)
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car
Etymologies
- From tail + pipe. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“• Gov't pushing more fuel efficiency for trucks: For the first time, the government announced proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks.”
“For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department announced proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year.”
“For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department released proposed fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe emissions for medium - and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year.”
“If you have no other means of staying warm besides the heater, turn the car into the wind if possible, make certain the tailpipe is free of snow, crack a window on both the upwind and downwind sides, and run it only for five minutes every half hour.”
“Don’t throw bad money into a company whose tailpipe is malfunctioning, causing a strange odor to fill the car.”
Michael Moore’s advice to Obama on General Motors | FactoryCity
“We're doing them together, because what comes out of your tailpipe is a function of the standards for the car and the gasoline you put in.”
“Second, also for the first time ever, to achieve cost-effective reductions we are treating tailpipe emissions and gasoline as a single system -- what comes out of the tailpipe is a function, in part, of the gasoline.”
“Which is why, in our view, the tailpipe was the way to go.”
“That means that only "tailpipe" emissions are taken into account; it doesn't even include evaporative emissions from the vehicle itself, never mind the upstream evaporative. emissions from the distribution of the fuel.”
“The "tailpipe" rule, which adopts new standards for car and light-truck emissions.”
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Americanism
American words
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Piper
Words containing *pipe*.
bagpipe, bagpipes, bagpiper, bagpipers, blowpipe, blowpipes, downpipe, downpipes, drainpipe, drainpipes, epipelagic, epipelagic zone and 92 more...
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