waste pipe

Questions about waste pipe

What does waste pipe mean?

waste pipe means "a pipe through which liquid is carried away".

What is another word for waste pipe?

Close synonyms include drain, drainpipe. 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 waste pipe a common word?

waste pipe 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.