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Language: Old English
Origin: pipa, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin pipare 'to make a high sound'

pipe

1 noun
     
pipe
Related topics: Daily Life, Tobacco, Technology
pipe1 S2 W3 [countable]
1

tube

TD a tube through which a liquid or gas flows:
a frozen waste pipe
copper pipes
A pipe had burst in the kitchen and flooded the floor.
 ➔ drainpipe

; ➔ exhaust pipe

at exhaust2 (2), windpipe
pipe
2

for smoking

DFT a thing used for smoking tobacco, consisting of a small tube with a container shaped like a bowl at one end:
Dad was there, smoking his pipe.
pipe tobacco
3

music

a) APM a simple musical instrument like a tube, that you play by blowing ➔ panpipes
b) APM one of the metal tubes that air passes through when you play an organ
c)

the pipes

APM bagpipes
4

pipe dream

a hope, idea, plan etc that is impossible or will probably never happen:
In many parts of the country, democratic elections are simply a pipe dream.
5

put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it

spoken used to say that someone must accept what you have just said, even though they do not like it
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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