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Meaning of tailpipe | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈteɪlpaɪp

Definitions

  1. An exhaust pipe exhausting to the aft of the vehicle.
  2. An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration).

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonym: exhaust system”
“This car doesn't have a tailpipe because it has sidepipes instead.”
“Today's cars emit less NoX at the tailpipe than their 20th-century predecessors did.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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