The word "drainpipe" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pipe that carries water away from a particular area. For example: "She checked the drainpipe to make sure it was not clogged."
I scarpered down the drainpipe and rang Liz again.
The chancellor's bodyguards catch some sun on the back garden patio, while trying to spot a kestrel nesting in a nearby drainpipe.
He opted to climb up a drainpipe with the aim of entering his room on the fourth floor, only for the drainpipe to snap when he had only reached first-floor level.
In the 1950s, rock and roll came to America, with Elvis Presley jiggling his pelvis in drainpipe trousers and James Dean looking moody in blue jeans.
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The woman, whose name has not been released, had actually been present during the two-hour ordeal to rescue the baby from the four inch wide drainpipe, but did not admit to being the mother until confronted by police.
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To get inside, you have to climb through a barbed wire fence, cross a precariously placed drainpipe and jump down an 8ft drop.
Among the games is a drainpipe slide which whizzes you from the upstairs bath to the garden below; the Karaoke Disco Shower, in which you can sing, get clean and be admired doing both things by screen-watching pals; the "Tellyscope II" which asks young visitors to throw bean bags at a target: if they get three bulls'-eyes, a television set comes trundling out of the wall.
Nevertheless, in 1982 a 32-year-old Fagan scaled the barbed-wire-topped, 14ft wall of Buckingham Palace and shinned up a drainpipe before wandering into the Queen's bedroom and a place in history.
In a move likely to be greeted with the dusting off of drainpipe trousers nationwide, Pulp have announced they are the latest Britpop band to reform.
