pipe cleaner

English

A plain white pipe cleaner

A sculpture of a bird made from pipe cleaners

Noun

pipe cleaner (plural pipe cleaners)

1. A piece of flexible wire in which tufted fabric is twisted and which is used to clean out the stem of a tobacco pipe or other narrow tube. It can be also used for arts and crafts.

Translations

wire which is used to clean small crevices

• Danish: piberenser (da) c
• Dutch: pijpewisser m, pijpenrager (nl) m
• Finnish: rassi (fi), piippurassi (fi), piipunpuhdistaja
• French: nettoie-pipe (fr) m, chenillette (fr) f, cure-pipe (fr)
• German: Pfeifenreiniger m
• Hungarian: pipaszurkáló (hu)
• Ingrian: rautavitsa
• Italian: curapipe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piperenser m

  Nynorsk: piperensar m

• Swedish: piprensare (sv) c
• Turkish: pipo temizleme fırçası