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stovepipes

/ ˈstəʊvˌpaɪps /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    tight trousers with narrow legs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When I was in the military, we called the problem “inter-operability” or “stovepipes.”

The lesson: Defeat stovepipes first and you can defeat the Taliban later.

Snug, too, they looked, with smoke coming out of stovepipes that ran through the roofs of several of them.

And there was no movement, no sound, no sign of life except the hot air rising from the mess kitchen stovepipes.

Keep them in covered boxes or dishes, away from the heat of stoves and stovepipes and out of the reach of rats and mice.

We awake betimes to the rattle of the scrubbing brush and the sharp overthrow of stovepipes.

He didn't hammer stovepipes and carry kitchen-boxes and cut fire-wood, you know.

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