: an outlet by which engine exhaust gases are expelled from a vehicle (such as an automobile or jet aircraft)
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Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley toasted the city’s first hydrogen bus in 1995 with a glass of water collected from its tailpipe.
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Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Some 1980s vehicles emit more than 100 times the tailpipe pollution of a new vehicle, Barrett noted.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
This finding is the legal basis for power-plant rules, tailpipe-emissions regulations, and almost every other action the executive branch has taken to curb the release of carbon dioxide and methane.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2025
The Argonne team assumed that growing corn on a farm offset the tailpipe emissions from burning corn in an engine, because cornstalks sucked carbon out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
—Michael Grunwald
july 21, Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
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Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Some 1980s vehicles emit more than 100 times the tailpipe pollution of a new vehicle, Barrett noted.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
This finding is the legal basis for power-plant rules, tailpipe-emissions regulations, and almost every other action the executive branch has taken to curb the release of carbon dioxide and methane.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2025
The Argonne team assumed that growing corn on a farm offset the tailpipe emissions from burning corn in an engine, because cornstalks sucked carbon out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
—Michael Grunwald
july 21, Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
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“Tailpipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailpipe. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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