pipe in

1. 1.

   transport to a destination through pipes

   “We have to pipe in oil”

   Broadertransport
2. 2.

   bring in through pipes

   “Music was piped into the offices”

   Broaderimpart

Questions about pipe in

What does pipe in mean?

pipe in means "transport to a destination through pipes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is pipe in a common word?

pipe in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.