Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The amount of smoking material that a pipe can hold.

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  • noun Enough tobacco to fill a pipe for smoking.

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  • noun the quantity of tobacco that can be smoked in a pipe at one time

Etymologies

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pipe +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • I'm having difficulty pinning the stupid in this story - do I mock the stupid that leads a young couple to get their 2-year-old a pipeful of pot to smoke or do I mock the stupid that leads them to video record it or do I mock the stupid that has them giving this video recording to a third party who narcs them out?

    Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012

  • I'm having difficulty pinning the stupid in this story - do I mock the stupid that leads a young couple to get their 2-year-old a pipeful of pot to smoke or do I mock the stupid that leads them to video record it or do I mock the stupid that has them giving this video recording to a third party who narcs them out?

    Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012

  • And though we wrote about it rarely, we all enjoyed smoking a good pipeful at the end of the day.

    Harvey Wasserman: George Washington Orders All Californians to Legalize Pot Harvey Wasserman 2010

  • And pipeful after pipeful, Prince Albert proves it has the flavor most favored in the U.S.A.

    quote out of context — for Amanda | clusterflock 2009

  • However, Rosenberg wasn't as personally repugnant as the other top Brownshirts such as Heydrich, Funk, or Röhm himself, so Shirer girded his mental loins, smoked a pipeful of some awful tobacco, and left his apartment.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • However, Rosenberg wasn't as personally repugnant as the other top Brownshirts such as Heydrich, Funk, or Röhm himself, so Shirer girded his mental loins, smoked a pipeful of some awful tobacco, and left his apartment.

    DBTL 51A: City of Shadows - Interview Johnny Pez 2009

  • I concluded from the abject manner of these people that they could not possibly be thoroughbred Bedouins, and I saw, too, that they must be in the very last stage of misery, for poor indeed is the man in these climes who cannot command a pipeful of tobacco.

    Eothen 2003

  • It was a feeble effort, but still close enough to the real thing to send me across Lincoln Boulevard to Pancho's, where I sat in a window booth, downed two orders of turkey tacquitos with guacamole, a bottle of Superior, a large cafe con leche and a pipeful of Rattray's Dark Fragrant mixture -- the only tobacco possible after Mexican food.

    The Mozart Code Adler, Dick 1999

  • He would have enjoyed a pipeful of Scottish tobacco if he had not given it up.

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • In the bedroom, he smoked another pipeful, repeating his offer to Sparrow.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

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