英和和英

語源

From tail +‎ pipe.

発音

• IPA: /ˈteɪlpaɪp/

名詞

tailpipe (plural tailpipes)

1. (automotive) An exhaust pipe exhausting to the aft of the vehicle.

   Hypernyms: exhaust pipe < pipe

   Holonym: exhaust system

   Coordinate term: sidepipe

   This car doesn't have a tailpipe because it has sidepipes instead.

   • 2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 June 2024:

     As much of Seattle tries to sleep, the Hellcat supercar goes on the prowl, the howls of its engine and the explosive backfires from its tailpipes echoing off the high-rise towers downtown.

2. (especially US) An exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration).

   Today's cars emit less NoX at the tailpipe than their 20th-century predecessors did.

動詞

tailpipe (third-person singular simple present tailpipes, present participle tailpiping, simple past and past participle tailpiped)

1. (transitive) To fasten an object to the tail of (an animal) as a prank.