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stovepipes

/ ˈstəʊvˌpaɪps /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    tight trousers with narrow legs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Debris from the floods included propane tanks, stovepipes, lawn chairs, dishes and an American flag.

We must redouble our efforts to work together — with allies and partners, across commands, across services and across our fiefdoms and stovepipes.

Rosenberg: So if one of the criticisms pre-9/11 was that there were too many walls and too many stovepipes, the notion of creating another wall or an additional stovepipes didn’t make sense.

From MSNBC

Its shoes are in a way chronicles of seismic American shifts, sort of like Stetsons, stovepipes, fedoras and trucker caps.

Meanwhile, reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes.

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