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A pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car
Answer for the clue "A pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car ", 8 letters:
tailpipe
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Word definitions for tailpipe in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From what goes into a vehicle to what comes out its tailpipe , Arizona lawmakers have not leaned on diesel. ▪ I put a potato in his tailpipe . ▪ In some increments the Calibra shows the way, while in others the Corrado shows ...
Usage examples of tailpipe.
At first Batman thought the Fantan was cutting in its afterburner, but then he realized that fuel was spilling into the tailpipe and igniting.
Soon the MiG filled the camera screen, the sleek, deadly aircraft jetting gouts of its own afterburner fire out the tailpipes.
He had swum down the length of the airframe, lifting slowly over the huge wing, gripping the edges of the massive tailpipes as he rounded the tail section, his lamp dancing wildly off the contours of the plane.
He said it as he and Ricky walked across concrete to go back to sweeping and fire watching amongst the jungles of wire and insulation and pipes and pvc being bent across tailpipes of generators of joy juice.
The dragging tailpipe struck sparks along unimproved patches of the Connecticut Turnpike and they had been honked out of the way by salesman types, young men in company subcompacts who were beginning to feel the pinch themselves, Alden said.
For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.
Maybe then, if the malignancy hadn't gotten into her brain and killed her, maybe then she would at last do the right thing with a tailpipe or a gas oven, or a shotgun.
Essentially an attempt to keep up to the frontline F-14 and F-15, the Sukhoi was a very good and capable aircraft, but even gussied up with a glass cockpit and thrust vectoring tailpipe, it didn’.
Fat twin chrome tailpipes glistered like liquid mercury in the fierce desert sun.
Instead of a plenum chamber and fairings to cool the exhaust, the tailpipes were arranged above a fairing that might shield the worst of the heat signature from a ground observer.
They took a wad of modelling clay from the Art Room and stuffed it in the tailpipe of the kid's Pontiac.
It ran with the low wheeze characteristic of valves which need to be reground, and the tang of oilsmoke from the old tailpipe polluted the air of the fading afternoon.
She is the only other human being in the universe actually, and when she stands up to shake his hand, his peripheral vision shuts down as if he has been sucking on a tailpipe.
The white-hot focused flames poured from the tailpipes for about a second, then went out, leaving everyone on deck half-blinded.
The engine backfired again, then again, from the buildup of back pressure as the tailpipes became blocked by the quicksand.