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half-pipe, n.
Brit. |ˈhɑːfpʌɪp|, U.S. |ˈhæfˌpaɪp|
[‹ half- comb. form + pipe n.1]
1. A pipe that is half full of tobacco, etc.; a quantity of tobacco, etc., sufficient to half-fill a pipe.
In quot. a 1625, the reference is probably to cheap, poor-quality tobacco smoked in small quantities on account of poverty.
a1625J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1640) iv. sig. H1, English Tobacco with halfe Pipes, nor in halfe a yeare once burnt. 1782Country Vicar in Sel. Coll. Poems VIII. 87 We must not stay; 'tis late... Well, one half pipe and then we go. 1970in R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 49/2 So like after two half pipes I was so high it was really funny.
2.
a. Half of a pipe or other hollow cylinder that has been bisected longitudinally; an object having this shape.
1706tr. L. L. D'Auxerre Compl. Florist in tr. F. Gentil Le Jardinier Solitaire 314 Hearts-ease is a Plant that, from its Roots shoots out Leaves.., stiff, and forming as it were a Half-pipe, pointed at the end. 1743Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 p. viii, The Polypus being in the Form of a Pipe, each Half of what is thus cut lengthways forms a Half-pipe. 1858J. Mullaly Laying of Cable 198 The process of laying in the wires is rendered much more expeditious and economical by the use of half pipes. 1881Mechanic 519 An excellent plan is to lay soles or flat tiles and in these to set half-pipes or bridge-pipes. 1944Hesperia 13 113 Three sections of pipe, one of which had a clean-out hole in the top, were joined..to a section of half pipe, laid as a collecting trough. 1989New Phytologist 113168/2 These drain pipes had been cut vertically into two halves and taped together so that root and soil samples were accessible simply by cutting the tapes and taking the half-pipe off.
b. In Skateboarding and similar sports: a ramp or bank that curves upward at both ends, thus resembling a half-pipe in cross-section when viewed from the side; a competition in which participants perform manoeuvres on such a ramp.
1978G. Kimberly Skateboard ix. 62 They'd set up ramps in the auditorium—wooden ramps on both sides to make a half pipe. 1989Ski Nov. 35/1 A half-pipe for snowboarders. 1994Snowboard UK Dec. 42/1 If fastest time was the deciding factor he would have won the halfpipe. 2002Mirror (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. 8 Kenny, Scotland's oldest skateboarder, is determined to keep on practising the hair-raising stunts on his local halfpipe. |