What is "drainpipe"

Usage examples of "drainpipe".

The ceiling was festooned with chamber pots, lavatory seats, Victorian enema pumps, soil-glaze drainpipes, grease traps, earthenware urinals, calking tools, spanners, closet hoppers, faucets, tack moulds, basin wrenches, yarning chisels, a very old thawing steamer, bibcocks, a jerking shank and numerous blowtorches with assorted ends.

Come along and see if you can learn to Read where the drainpipes have broken.

They knocked on beams, removed floorboards, unscrewed drainpipes and put hands into lavatories.

Rupert had removed the Olympic badge from his blue blazer and had had the trousers narrowed to drainpipe proportions.

Three days to find the right size brothel creepers and drainpipes, another two for the long jacket with velvet collar.

He thought about the little boy in the Clock Tower Grove Estate pretending to climb a drainpipe.

With a sigh I settled for the black sweater, which had a high collar, the charcoal drainpipe trousers, and the black leather jacket.

He once turned up to a smart party in a badly fitting check suit with drainpipe trousers.

His clothes were Western and expensive: a thigh-length jacket of soft brown leather, a red silk roll-neck and drainpipe trousers of the sort the fashionable man was wearing in the Sixties.

So he darts and shinnies his way through the gothic jaggedness of fire-escapes, drainpipes and TV aerials, while beneath him Broadway crackles in late-night styrofoam, and there is no money involved.