pipe stem

Tube joining bowl

The stem of a tobacco pipe—the slender tube connecting the bowl to the mouthpiece.

Pipe stem describes anything similarly long and thin: pipe-stem legs, pipe-stem arms.

The phrase suggests extreme thinness, often unhealthily so.

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pipe component

pipe stempipe bowl

Tobacco-holding cup section

bowl · shank · bit

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pipe, stem, pipes, piped, piping, piper, pipers, pipework, pipeline

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G