tailpipe

plural tailpipes

1. automotiveAn exhaust pipe exhausting to the aft of the vehicle.

   Holonym: exhaust system

   2 more examples

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

   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.

   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 06 Jun 2024

2. USespeciallyAn exhaust pipe (on a vehicle) (in any configuration).

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

present singular third person tailpipes · participle present tailpiping · participle past tailpiped · past tailpiped

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