noun
stovepipe
Stovepipe (noun) means a metal pipe that carries smoke away from a stove or furnace.
noun
1
A metal pipe that carries smoke away from a stove or furnace.
2
(figurative) A closed information channel that keeps interested people from accessing what it carries.
3
A type of hat called a stovepipe hat.
"I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand."
— Stephen Roberts, Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841) (2021)
4
(firearms) A jam in which an empty cartridge case gets stuck upright in the ejection port instead of clearing the gun.
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Etymology
Formed from stove and pipe. In firearms, the sense arose because a trapped cartridge case looks like a stovepipe in the stove sense.
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What is the meaning of stovepipe?
"stovepipe" (noun) means a metal pipe that carries smoke away from a stove or furnace.
What is another word for stovepipe?
Other words for "stovepipe" include topper, beaver.
What are the different meanings of stovepipe?
"stovepipe" has 3 main meanings: 1. A metal pipe that carries smoke away from a stove or furnace; 2. (figurative) A closed information channel that keeps interested people from accessing what it carries; 3. A type of hat called a stovepipe hat.
