flying drainpipe

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   a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed

   Synonymsramjetramjet engineatherodydeathodyd

   Broaderjet engine

Questions about flying drainpipe

What does flying drainpipe mean?

flying drainpipe means "a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed".

What is another word for flying drainpipe?

Close synonyms include ramjet, ramjet engine, atherodyde, athodyd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flying drainpipe a common word?

flying drainpipe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.