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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a drainpipe" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a long, narrow pipe that carries away excess water or waste from a building or structure. Example: The heavy rain caused the drainpipe to overflow, flooding the street below.
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Did anybody ever force her to have sex in a drainpipe?
Last month, a woman was found in a drainpipe, raped and stabbed with a screwdriver.
Then he shinned up a drainpipe to get into the Palace.
For that matter, I once came across pornographic playing cards in a drainpipe of the Dakota.
You excavate, waterproof the foundation and lay down and bury a drainpipe around the house.
On Sept. 2, his brother said, his body was found in a drainpipe.
In the film, he proposes to her by climbing up a drainpipe to her bedroom window.
Gaddafi was being pulled from a drainpipe just before Nasr fell.
He then slides down a drainpipe to eat breakfast with faux innocence.
There is even a nesting kestrel tucked behind a drainpipe high up.
More than two years later, some of the diamonds were found in a drainpipe north of Paris.
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