drainpipe
/ˈdɹeɪnˌpaɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He unlatched the window and stuck his head out — there was a drainpipe a couple of feet to the left but his room was on the second floor and it was too dark to tell whether the garden below was grass, soil, or paving."
- "We said earlier that we normally use a curved or bent piece of pipe at the top of the drainpipe where it is connected to the gutter, and a fitting at the bottom end of the drainpipe that directs the water into a channel or a drain or gully."
- "There was a black drainpipe running the entire height of the hotel wall alongside her balcony and I managed to pull myself onto it, gripping the rough, rusty metal as firmly as I could."
- "Where a lot owner knows that his premises will be flooded in case of a heavy rain, unless a certain city drainpipe in the street adjacent thereto is cleaned out, and gives no notice of it, and makes no effort to remedy the defect, he cannot recover of the city damages caused by flooding his premises during such storm."
- "She's in a drainpipe--right there," I said, pointing toward the hole in the side of the ditch."
- "Her body was found stuffed in a big, ole drainpipe down near the river."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹeɪnˌpaɪp/