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pipes

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //paɪps//

A single pipe organ.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of pipeplural of pipe

Etymology

(vocal capacity): As if one's lungs were composed of pipework.

noun

  1. 1

    A single pipe organ.

  2. 2

    figurativeOne's vocal capacity.

  3. 3

    figurativeBiceps.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pipethird-person singular simple present indicative of pipe

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).