stovepipe
IPA: stˈoʊvpaɪp
noun
- Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
- A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
- (clothing) A stovepipe hat.
- (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.
verb
- (idiomatic) To collect or store information in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or ability to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
- (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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Examples of "stovepipe" in Sentences
- Many thanks for that clever stovepipe hat barnstar.
- Someone passing above a wide stovepipe may fall in.
- Jones used his stovepipe hat to deliver the mail from.
- It was difficult to cause failure of the simple stovepipe engine.
- The stovepipe from the kitchen range ran through it, giving it ample warmth.
- That is what we call a stovepipe tornado, where you see that straight column kind of up and down.
- Here are some of the key developments in four industries that have left us with this "stovepipe" approach to regulation.
- The soldiers in the field who used the rocket launcher called it other things such as the "stovepipe" and the "Buck Rogers gun."
- One retired Army officer describes the first stage of the war as having been conducted "stovepipe" fashion, with separate chains of command for each service.
- Steampunk is popular simply because brass ray-guns, airships, Analytical Engines, and bitchin 'stovepipe toppers with built-in daguerrotype cameras are just flat-out cool.
- And then you get to something a little bit bigger than that, then you get this stovepipe, which is straight up and down onto the ground, a very dangerous, probably 130, 140-mile-per-hour tornado.
- In short, Miller was the "stovepipe" (a Sy Hersh phrase for unvetted intelligence) for disinformation from the Administration and Ahmed Chalabi about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction on to the front page of the Times in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and just afterwards.
- A front page Washington Post article in late March quoted Nicholson as saying each of the NATO countries operating in the south had taken a "stovepipe" approach to development, rather than the regional approach favoured by the U.S. Some in Canada took this as criticism of how Canada had run its aid programs in Kandahar.