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pipe
noun as in passage, tube
verb as in conduct through tube, passage
Example Sentences
Leaders cannot just tell their number two to pipe down, because they are voted in by party members.
In addition, as homes burned, damaged pipes gushed water, contributing to the rapid loss of pressure.
These would be excellent candidates for a momentum fund, or a venture fund trying to sort spicy growers from pipe dreams.
But when Mr. Netanyahu then rejected that, insisting on a deal to return all the hostages at once and disarm Hamas, it was dismissed as a pipe dream—including by the Israeli defense establishment.
Their son, David Brown, said his mother described Thomas Brown during his Knox days as “the obnoxious guy sitting in the front of class, smoking a pipe and arguing with the professor.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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