Definitions from Wiktionary (stovepipe)
▸ noun: Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
▸ noun: A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
▸ noun: (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
▸ noun: (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
▸ noun: (military slang, World War Iā World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
▸ verb: (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
▸ verb: (intransitive, firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
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▸ noun: Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
▸ noun: A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
▸ noun: (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
▸ noun: (firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
▸ noun: (military slang, World War Iā World War II) A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar.
▸ verb: (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
▸ verb: (intransitive, firearms) Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon.
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top hat,
opera hat,
topper,
beaver,
dress hat,
high hat,
silk hat,
tallboy,
pipe,
pipe-stick,
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