Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flying_drainpipe
1 sense of flying drainpipe
Sense 1
ramjet, ramjet engine, atherodyde, athodyd, flying drainpipe -- (a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed)
=> jet engine -- (a gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion)